A TOUR OF EUROPE IN NINETEEN DAYS. 



REPORT 



TO THE 



BOARD OF DIRECTORS 



OF THE 



Louisiana Purchase Exposition 



ON 



European Tour, 

MADE IN THE INTEREST 
OF THE 

ST. LOUIS WORLD'S ;FAIR, ,'. 



BY 



DAVID R. FRANCIS, President. 



APRIL, 1903. 






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INDEX. 

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St. Louis to London 3 

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England 5 

France 1.1.1 .£.,?.: 21 

Spain 28 

Second Visit to Paris 33 

Germany 39 

Belgium 46 

Acknowledgments 52 

Conclusions , .-. 54 

New York and Home Again 55 

Response at American Society Dinner 63 

Response at Paris Breakfast (French) 72 

Response at Paris Breakfast (Translation) 77 

Response at Luncheon tendered by Imperial German Com- 
missioner-General Lewald 84 

Response at Dinner of Missouri Society in New York 87 

Resolutions of St. Louis Merchants Exchange 93 

Response at Reception Merchants Exchange 94 

Mayor Wells' Opening Address at Dinner tendered by 

him at St. Louis Club 99 

Response at Mayor Wells' Dinner 102 

.List of Speakers and Guests at Mayor Wells' Dinner 105 



LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 

Page. 

President Francis and Group of Commissioners 2 

Decorated Title Page Menu Card for the Washington 
Birthday Dinner, London, February 23d 8 

King Edward VII 11 

Lady Lansdowne 14 

Lord Lansdowne 15 

Commissioner- General Lagrave and President Francis 23 

President Loubet 24 

Sr. Silvela 29 

King Alfonso XIII 30 

President Francis and Secretary 31 

Snapshot of President Francis and French Officials 34 

Title Page Breakfast Menu, Paris, March 7th 36 

Vase presented to President Francis by M. Chaumie 38 

Emperor William II 40 

Group: U. S. Consul -General Mason, Imperial German 
Commissioner -General Lewald, U. S. Ambassador 

Tower and President Francis 44 

King Leopold 47 

North German Lloyd Steamship Kronprinz Wilhelm 50 

Waldorf-Astoria Banquet Hall, Dinner given by Missouri 

Society, New York, March 19th, 1903 56 

President Roosevelt 59 

Mayor Wells' Dinner at the St. Louis Club, March 23d, 

1903 60 

Table Plan, American Society Dinner 62 

Table Plan, Paris Breakfast 71 



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CHAPTER I. 

From St. Louis to London. 

To the Board of Directors: 

I have the honor to submit herewith report of the 
trip made by me to Europe in the interest of the Expo- 
sition. Where the personal pronoun "I" is used in 
this report in lieu of the "President of the Louisiana The Origin 

. . . . of the Tour. 

Purchase Exposition " it is done to save time, space and 
labor, as in no instance have I been misled into the 
belief that the attention shown me and the distinction 
conferred was personal and not intended for the accred- 
ited representative and highest official of an enterprise 
which has been recognized and substantially aided by 
the United States Government, by the City of St. 
Louis, by the State of Missouri and many other States of 
the American Union, and which includes in the scope of 
its activity every civilized people and every organized 
government on the earth. 

It was with much reluctance and many misgivings 
that I decided to accept the invitation of the American invitation 
Society in London to attend its 22d of February dinner. American 
I was not inappreciative of the compliment nor of the f ociety 

r r r in London. 

possible benefit to the Exposition from an acceptance of 
the invitation, but while fearing that my absence from 
the field of local preparation might impede the progress 
of that all-important work, I contemplated with great 
trepidation the presentation of the Exposition's claims by 
its highest official in foreign countries. I realized that 
the failure of such a movement, if not fatal to the par- 
ticipation of other countries in the Exposition, would 
certainly handicap our efforts in that direction and give 
to them such a back-set as would require the concen- 
trated co-operation in the foreign field on the part of 
every Division of the Company's organization, and 
active, if not aggressive aid on the part of the Federal 
Government. 

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Ambassador 

Choate 

Cables. 



The 
Start. 



In 

New York. 



The 
Voyage. 



After careful consideration of all the conditions, the 
Executive Committee and myself agreed that the 
invitation of the American Society should be declined, 
and on February 1st a cable communication to that effect 
was sent to the officers of the Society. The reply was a 
protest, based upon the incontrovertible statement that 
the President of the Exposition had some weeks, or 
months previous, announced his willingness to accept the 
invitation, and in accordance therewith many officials 
and representative men of the British Empire had 
accepted an invitation to meet him on the occasion 
named. Correspondence by cable was kept up until 
February 9th, when the receipt of a cablegram from the 
American Ambassador in London to the effect that the 
interests of the Exposition demanded that its President 
accept the invitation left no room for further argument, 
especially as the time between the receipt of the Ambas- 
sador's cablegram and the date of the dinner was so 
short that there was only one vessel leaving an Atlantic 
seaport by which a passenger could safely be transported 
so as to reach London in time for the dinner. Conse- 
quently I left St. Louis at 1.00 p. m. February 10th, 
just two and a half hours before the time fixed for the 
February meeting of your honorable Board . I was accom- 
panied only by my secretary, Mr. J. C. Thompson, Jr. 

On my arrival at New York I was met by Honorable 
Rolla Wells, Mayor of St. Louis, and by three other 
Directors of the Company, Messrs. James Campbell, 
Julius S. Walsh and B. F. Yoakum, all of whom bade 
me godspeed. I cleared on the morning of February 
12th, on the French steamer La Bretagne, for Havre, 
France; Mayor Wells, with his accustomed and thought- 
ful kindness, accompanied me to the pier at the foot of 
Tenth Street and waved bon voyage as long as a human 
form could be distinguished on the shore. 

The voyage was rough and stormy, but otherwise 
uneventful. The ship landed at Havre about 7.00 
o'clock on the evening of February 20th. 

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CHAPTER II. 
England. 

Before leaving Saint Eouis I had cabled the Eondon 
representative of the Exposition, Mr. George F. Parker, 
directing that all of our European representatives meet 
me in Eondon for report and personal conference. At 
Havre I was met by Mr. Parker himself, and by Mr. 
Palmer E. Bowen, who for fifteen months past has been 
doing exploitation work in France and Switzerland. 
From Havre I sailed for Southampton at midnight Feb- 
ruary 20th, and leaving Southampton at 8.00 o'clock on An 
the morning of February 21st, arrived in Eondon at 11.00. at Havre. 
While at Havre I was honored by a call from the Ameri- 
can Consul, Mr. Thackara, and his wife, who is a 
daughter of the late General Sherman. Mr. Thackara 
evinced great interest in the Exposition and showed 
familiarity with its scope and the progress made in the 
work of preparation, but at the same time he expressed 
regret that the people of Havre and of the remainder of 
France were not taking more active steps for partici- 
pation. 

On arrival in Eondon I was met by our European Arrival in 
Commissioner, Mr. Thomas W. Cridler; by Miss Hay- London ' 
ward, who since November, 1902, has been performing 
intelligent and effective work for the Exposition in Eon- 
don ; by Mr. Halsey C. Ives, Chief of the Department of 
Art, who, since June, 1902, has been employed in arous- 
ing an interest in the Exposition throughout art circles in 
Europe; by Mr. Joseph Brucker, the Exposition's repre- 
sentative in Berlin; by Honorable John Barrett, Com- 
missioner-General to Asia for the Exposition, who was 
en route from India to St. Eouis; by Mr. R. Newton 
Crane, formerly a resident of St. Eouis, and by Mr. 
F. C. Van Duzer, Secretary of the American Society in 
Eondon. Apartments had been engaged at Claridges 

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Lunch 
with the 
American 
Ambassador. 



Conferences 

and 

Interviews. 



Tea with 

Lady 

Barrington. 



A Dinner 

by 

Mr. Stewart. 



Hotel on Brooks Street. On my arrival there I received 
a message from the American Ambassador, inviting me 
to lunch with him at the Carlton at 1.00 o'clock. At 
12.30 I paid my respects to the Embassy, and, accom- 
panied by the Ambassador, proceeded thence to the 
luncheon. My reception by the Ambassador, by the 
Secretary of the Embassy, Mr. Henry White, and by all 
of the attaches of the Embassy was most cordial, and 
during my entire stay in London the Ambassador and all 
of his staff spared no effort to promote the interests of 
the Exposition and the object of my visit. 

The afternoon was spent in discussing the status of 
the Exposition in the United Kingdom with the Ameri- 
can Ambassador and the attaches of the Embassy, and 
the progress of the work in Europe with the above 
named representatives of the Exposition. During the 
evening calls were made by U. S. Consul-General Evans, 
by Mr. James C. Stewart, a St. Louisan, who for two 
years past has made for himself an enviable reputation 
in England and throughout Europe by his work for the 
Westinghouse Company and the Northwestern Railroad. 

The forenoon of Sunday was consumed by interviews 
of the American Associated Press, the London Chronicle, 
the London Express, the Saint James Gazette, and other 
English newspapers. In the afternoon I accompanied 
Mr. Newton Crane to a tea at the house of Lady 
Barrington, the wife of Sir Eric Barrington, long and 
favorably connected with the English Foreign Office and 
the Secretary who has charge of the correspondence of 
the Foreign Minister. Lady Barrington talked freely 
about the Exposition, having had frequent calls from 
Miss Hay ward, who had inspired her with a deep interest 
in the undertaking. 

At 8.00 o'clock on Sunday evening I was principal 
guest at a dinner given by Mr. James C. Stewart at the 
Carlton. The dinner was attended by the American 

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Ambassador; by Lord Grey, one of the executors of the 
will of Cecil Rhodes; by General Sir Ian Hamilton, who 
gained distinction in the Boer War; by Admiral Sir John 
Fisher of the British Navy; by Mr. Moberly Bell, Pub- 
lisher of the London Times ; by Sir Clinton Dawkins, the 
London partner of J. Pierpont Morgan; by the Rt. Hon. 
Sir Joseph Dimsdale, ex-Lord Mayor of London; by 
Prince Radziwill ; by Baron Gravenitz of the Belgian 
Legation; by the Rt. Hon. Arnold Morley; by Sir Ernest 
Paget, President of the London & Northwestern Railroad ; 
by Mr. Arthur Hill, Mr. Bax Ironsides, Mr. Fletcher Moul- 
ton, Mr. Paul May, Colonel Craddock, Sir Astley Corbett, 
Mr. Newton Crane, and others — a distinguished assem- 
blage, whose presence was not only a compliment to 
your President, but to Mr. Stewart as well. The main 
topic of conversation at this function, as it was at prac- 
tically every one I attended, was the Universal Expo- 
sition of 1904 to be held at St. Louis. 

On Monday, February 23d, I was presented by 
Ambassador Choate to the King of England at a levee The 

. . Levee. 

which was attended by Prime Minister Balfour and all 
the officials of the Government, by Lord Roberts, Admi- 
ral Fisher, and by many of the highest officers of the 
British Army and Navy, by the Foreign Ambassadors 
and Ministers, and by a large number of representative 
men of the British Empire. At the levee I was intro- 
duced to Lord Landsdowne, Lord Londonderry and 
several other officers of the Government, all of whom 
expressed interest in the Exposition. In the afternoon At the 

1-1 • r i i-\ ■» • i t» 1 • House of 

I attended a session of the English Parliament, accom- Parliament, 
panied by Mr. Henry White. The subject under consid- 
eration was the Army Bill, the discussion of which was 
highly interesting. During my stay in the Diplomatic 
Gallery from 3.30 until 6.00 p. m., I heard speeches 
made by Mr. Brodrick, Secretary for War, . by Sir 
Charles Dilke, and others. 

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CHAttfMAN. 



DEGORATED TITLE PAGE OF MENU CARD FOR THE WASHINGTON BIRTHDAY DINNER, 
Given by the American Society in London on February 23d, 1903. 



The dinner of the American Society was on the Dinner of 

American 

evening of February 23d, at the Hotel Cecil. There society, 
were over four hundred plates. The chairman was Mr. 
D. C. Haldeman, President of the American Society in 
London. The menu of the dinner and the seating of the 
guests are shown as part of this report. The American 
Ambassador occupied the seat of honor on the right 
of the President, Lord Devonshire was on his left, and 
I was located between Lord Devonshire and the Lord 
Mayor of London. After a few words of introduction by 
the Chairman and a toast to the King of England and 
the President of the United States, the latter being 
responded to by Lord Devonshire, whose remarks made 
a profound impression, not only upon the company 
assembled, but also upon the entire English people, the 
American Ambassador proposed the sentiment, "The 
Louisiana Purchase Exposition," and after a speech of 
about twenty minutes introduced me to make the 
response. My reply was thirty minutes in duration and The 

Toasts. 

appeared to be well received by the assembled company. 
Mr. John Barrett, the Exposition's Commissioner-Gen- 
eral to Asia, then proposed the success of the exhibit of 
the United Kingdom at St. Louis in 1904, in a speech 
of about ten minutes, which was responded to by Lord 
Londonderry, a member of the English Government and 
President of its Board of Education, and by Sir Edward 
Poynter, President of the Royal Academy, after which 
speeches were made on the subject of the "World-wide 
Effects of International Exhibitions," by the Lord Pro- 
vost of Glasgow, Sir E. H. Carbutt, Bart., and SirE. H. 
Holland, M. P. This completed the regular program 
of the evening. The impromptu proceedings consisted 
of felicitations of the American Society by its Secretary > 
Mr. Van Duzer, and by its President, Mr. Haldeman. 

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Lunch On February 24th I lunched with L,ord Grey, Dr. 

Earl Grey Jameson, of Johannesburg fame, and other representatives 
Dr. Jameson, of the Government of Rhodesia. 

During the forenoon I was honored by a call from Sir 
James Dredge, publisher and editor of Engineering, 
a well-known English journal, which has for months 
past taken great interest in the Exposition, as shown 
by its columns; he was a member of the British 
Commission at the Chicago Exposition of 1893 and at 
several other Expositions where England has made 
exhibits . 

The afternoon was consumed by conferences 
with the Exposition representatives and by calls from 
Ambassador Choate, Secretary White and others. In 
the evening I dined with Mr. Melville E. Stone, Man- 
Dinner ager of the Associated Press of the United States, who 

with & 

Melville had journeyed from Berlin to Eondon to meet me and 
to attend the dinner of the preceding evening. In this 
connection I take pleasure in testifying to the unfailing 
and very helpful assistance extended to me in my mission 
by Mr. Stone and by all of the representatives of the 
American Associated Press throughout Europe. 

While at King Edward's levee on February 23d, 
Lord Knollys, Private Secretary of the King, had asked 
the Secretary of Embassy, Mr. Henry White, whether I 
desired a private audience with the King, and of course 

Private h a( j been answered in the affirmative. The audience 

Audience 

with King was fixed for noon on February 25th, and at the time 
appointed I proceeded to Buckingham Palace, accom- 
panied by the American Ambassador. King Edward 
received us in his private apartments, and after a very 
gracious welcome, characterized by a hearty shake of the 
hand, invited us to be seated. The conversation had 
not proceeded many minutes before the King, whom 
courtesy permits to introduce subjects in conversation as 
well as to terminate all interviews, spoke of the Exposition > 

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Edward. 



and almost immediately thereafter voluntarily stated 
that he had decided to tender the Jubilee presents of Queen 
Victoria for exhibit at St. Louis in 1904, if agreeable to the 

Exposition authori- 
ties. My reply was 
to the effect that the 
exhibition of such 
treasures would not 
only be agreeable, 
but would be consid- 
ered a great honor by 
the Exposition Com- 
pany, and would un- 
doubtedly be viewed 
with great interest by 
its millions of visi- 
tors whose number 
would no doubt be 
increased by this very 
distinguished mark of 
kindness on the part 
of His Majesty. He 
stated that expres- 
sions of good will and 
admiration for his 
respected mother on the part of the American people had 
led him to believe that such an exhibit would be appre- 
ciated, and after confirmation of that belief he would 
himself select such of the gifts as he thought would be 
most interesting and direct that they be sent to the 
Exposition. 

The audience lasted about thirty minutes, and, as 
is customary, was terminated by the King. It was 
characterized by expressions of the conviction that the 
Exposition would be highly successful, and by assurances 
of friendly feeling toward the people and the Government 

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KING EDWARD VII. OF ENGLAND. 



His Majesty 

tenders 

Queen 

Victoria 

Jubilee 

Presents. 



The 

Royal 

Commission 



Effect 
of the 
Private 
Audience. 



of the United States. The replies made by myself 
to the effect that the success of the Exposition would be 
greatly promoted by the distinction he had conferred 
upon it by the tender of the gifts of Queen Victoria's 
Jubilee presents for exhibit and by a general participa- 
tion in the Exposition on the part of the English people 
were considerately received by the King, and when I 
gave utterance to the hope that a Royal Commission 
would be appointed, the King stated that Lord Lans- 
downe had that matter in charge. Thereupon I pre- 
sumed to suggest that the naming of a member of the 
royal family as Honorary Chairman of the Commission 
would not only enhance its influence but be highly 
appreciated by the Government of the United States and 
by the Exposition management. To that suggestion he 
made no reply beyond saying, with manifest good feeling, 
that he would take it under consideration. He author- 
ized me to inform Lord Lansdowne of his tender of the 
Jubilee presents, expressed sincere gratification at the 
call, and impressed me throughout the duration of the 
audience as a ruler who is sincerely desirous to promote 
the welfare of his people, and as worthy of the esteem 
and respect in which he is held by the subjects of a 
limited monarchy. 

It may be of interest to you to learn that upon my 
individual responsibility, I took pleasure in informing 
King Edward, that the people of our country heartily 
reciprocate the friendly sentiments which he had said 
were cherished for them by the people of the United 
Kingdom, as well as by himself. 

The effect of this private audience and of the good 
will toward the Exposition, indicated by the King of 
England, through the tender of the Jubilee presents of 
Queen Victoria, was impressive and widespread, and 
was not confined to Great Britain, but extended to all 
of the British Colonies and was not without influence on 

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other nations of Europe. No statement from the English 
King could have been more helpful, coming as it did at 
a time when European interest in the Exposition seemed 
lukewarm, if not indifferent. 

The tender of the Jubilee presents for exhibit was 
spontaneous on the part of the King, and Lord Lans- 
downe, in a subsequent conversation on the subject, 
seemed desirous that the offering should be considered 
wholly voluntary and without suggestion from any other 
source. 

Upon leaving Buckingham Palace I proceeded to 
the Mansion House to attend a luncheon of the Lord 
Mayor of London, who had extended the invitation to T1 »e 
me at the American Society dinner of February 23d. Mayor's 
The seat of honor to the right of the Lord Mayor was Luncheon - 
occupied by the Countess Howe, the same who was so 
active in sending a ship load of supplies to the sick and 
wounded during the South African war. I was placed 
at her right, and to my right was Lieut. General 
Sir John French. Among the other guests at the 
luncheon were Lord Charles Beresford, General Sir 
George White, Sir A. Conan Doyle, Sir Fred. Treves, 
Bt., and twelve or fifteen other distinguished citizens of 
London. 

The afternoon of the day was passed at my rooms 
receiving calls and conferring with the European repre- 
sentatives of the Exposition. 

In the evening I was the guest at a dinner given by 
Mr. Edward Gifford, a former resident of St. Louis, and 
son-in-law of Lord Gifford, Lord Chancellor of England, The 
who was invited to meet me. Mr. Edward Gifford has chancellor, 
many friends in St. Louis who will remember him with 
pleasure, and they will all be pleased to learn that he 
continues to take a deep interest in everything that 
pertains to the welfare of the city, especially the suc- 
cess of the Exposition. 

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Lord 

Lansdowne 
Entertains 
at Lunch. 



A 

Delightful 

Dinner. 



Sir Edward 
Poynter. 
Sir Gilbert 
Parker. 



On Thursday, February 26th, I attended a luncheon 
at Lansdowne House as the guest of Lord Lansdowne, 
the Foreign Minister, 
where were present 
Lady Lansdowne, 
her brother, Lord 
Aberdeen, and other 
members of the fam- 
ily. The main topic 
of conversation was 
the St. Louis Expo- 
sition, which the 
ladies especially ex- 
pressed an earnest 
desire to attend. 

In the evening I 
was given a dinner by 
Mrs. Ronalds at her 
residence. Signor 
Marconi, Colonel 
Hunsicker, the Lon- 
don representative of 
the United States 
Steel Corporation, 
and Mr. and Mrs. Blow, of Virginia (Mr. Blow is a 
mining engineer who has large interests in South 
Africa) , and several other Americans were among the 
guests. The Exposition was again the main subject of 
of conversation and every opportunity was taken advan- 
tage of to make known its character and scope. 

On February 27th I was invited to lunch at the 
Carlton by the American Ambassador, the other guests 
being Sir Edward Poynter, President of the Royal 
Academy, and Sir Gilbert Parker, M. P., author of "The 
Right of Way," "Seats of the Mighty" and other well- 
known works of fiction highly appreciated by American 

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LADY LANSDOWNE. 




readers. In the afternoon I returned a call which had 
been made by Lord Peel, who was said to have been 

selected by Lord Lans- 
downe as Chairman of 
the English Commission. 
Lord Peel was for six 
years Speaker of the 
English House of Com- 
mons, is a man of high 
character, acknowledged 
ability, and is universally 
respected in England. 
He manifested a desire 
for information concern- 
ing the Exposition, and 
seemed imbued with a 
determination to make 
the English exhibit a 
credit to his country and 
abreast of that of any 
other nation. I made engagements with him to receive 
Professor Ives and Lieut. Carden ; the latter has for nine 
months past been doing most excellent work for the 
Machinery Department of the Exposition, and had come to 
London to meet me in accordance with my request. I also 
called on Mr. W. T. Stead, publisher of the Reviezv of 
Reviews, in response to his invitation, which stated in his 
terse style: "Now that you have been received by the 
King in private audience I trust you may have some time 
to devote to his subjects." Mr. Stead was apparently 
willing, if not anxious, to learn all he could about the 
Exposition, and I was glad to avail myself of an opportunity 
to impart all possible information to a man of such 
acknowledged ability and such extensive influence. 

The remainder of Friday until after midnight was 
passed in conference with the Exposition representatives 

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The 

Chairman 
of the 
English 
Commission 



LORD LANSDOWNE. 



W. T. Stead 



Reorganiz- 
ing the 
European 
Exploitation. 



and in planning a new campaign for foreign exploi- 
tation . 

It was decided that Mr. Cridler should proceed at 
once to St. Petersburg, Ambassador McCormick hav- 
ing twice written me at London of his great anxiety 

Russia. concerning the inclination and intentions of the Russian 
Government. 

Mr. Charles W. Kohlsaat and Mr. Hawkins Taylor, 
who had previously been accompanying Mr. Cridler, 

Sweden. were directed to go to Stockholm, Sweden, and to 

Egypt. Cairo, Egypt, respectively. 

Miss Hayward was permitted to remain two months 
longer in London, before the expiration of which period 
she will probably be assigned to another field, where it 
is hoped she will accomplish as much as she has in 
London, and if so, it will result in great benefit to the 
Exposition. 

Switzerland. Mr. Bowen was directed to remain in Switzerland 

until the government of that country takes favorable 
action concerning participation in the Exposition, which 
it is hoped will be within a few weeks. Thereupon he 
will proceed to India to continue the work begun by 
Mr. John Barrett. This field is a very important one, 
and so extensive that it will require very painstaking 
and persistent labor. 

Professor Ives and Lieut. Carden, both of whom 
have been performing most satisfactory work under the 
guidance of the Division of Exhibits, will continue their 
work until I return to St. Louis and confer with Director 
of Exhibits Skiff. These gentlemen have been devoting 
their time to exhibitors, rather than to the governments 
of the countries, and after viewing the field and the 
effect of our foreign work, I have come to the conclusion 
that in most cases, if not in all, the wisest policy is to 
begin by interesting the people or the exhibitors, as 
their influence must be exercised upon the government 

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before a formal acceptance of the invitation to partici- 
pate in the Exposition can be made. Belgium and 
Holland, through their respective foreign offices, at first 
courteously declined to accept our invitation, but subse- 
quently, through the influence of their artists and manu- 
facturers, reconsidered, and are now classed among 
the countries that will participate in the Exposition. 

The intelligent labors of L,ieut. Carden have 
been very fruitful for the Exposition power plant, as 
well as in moving manufacturers to prepare exhibits. 

When conditions at Stockholm will admit of Mr. 
Kohlsaat leaving that field he will proceed to Austria, Austria - 
which country has as yet made no reply to our invita- 
tion, and whose people seem loth to exhibit their prod- 
nets in America. Russia and Austria seem to be the 
countries where it is advisable our most energetic efforts 
shall be put forth. 

I neglected to mention that Chevalier Vittorio 
Zeggio, who for a year past has been the Exposition's 
•Commissioner in Italy, arrived in L,ondon February 2 2d, Italy, 
attended the dinner of the American Society and was 
present at all the conferences of the Exposition officials. 
Mr. Zeggio 's work from the beginning has been charac- 
terized by industry and good judgment, and by an 
earnest desire to secure the participation of that country, 
which very soon after the receipt of its invitation for- 
warded through the State Department at Washington 
its reply declining to participate. A reconsideration 
brought about by Mr. Zeggio met with the same fate, 
but not discouraged, he has repeated his efforts, and my 
latest advices from him are to the effect that the accept- 
ance of Italy is only a question of time. 

Mr. Parker was directed to remain in Iyondon for England, 
the present and to continue his work under the guidance 
of the Commission to be appointed, and the same order 
-was given to Mr. Brucker concerning Germany, his 

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Australia. 



Considering 
Tour of the 
Continent. 



retention having been requested by Dr. Theodor L,ewald, 
the Imperial Commissioner-General of Germany. 

Mr. Barrett, after remaining in L,ondon a few days 
to recuperate after his labors through China, Japan, 
Siam and India, is to report at St. Iyouis, and go thence 
to New Zealand and from there to Australia. His work 
up to this time has been satisfactory and effective. 

Mr. Albert E. Stiasny, who has recently been sent 
to Austria to do exploitation work among the manu- 
facturers of that country, with whom he has an ac- 
quaintance, was not directed to meet me in Iyondon, 
but was ordered to continue his work in Austria in the 
hope of interesting probable exhibitors, to the end that 
they might induce the government to formally accept 
the invitation to participate in the Exposition. 

On Saturday, February 28th, I had a conference 
with Col. Watson, who it was said would be appointed 
Secretary of the English Commission, and who pro- 
posed to visit St. L,ouis during the coming months. 

It had been my intention to return to America 
direct from Eondon, sailing on February 28th, but 
having received two or more urgent requests to visit 
France from M. Michel Eagrave, the Commissioner- 
General to the Exposition from that country, and having 
been informed by Mr. M. E. Stone that Ambassador 
Porter at Paris had expressed the opinion that it would 
be a mistake for the President of the Exposition to visit 
England and return to America without paying his. 
respects to France and Germany, which countries had 
accepted the invitation and were making active prep- 
arations to participate, and having been advised from 
St. Iyouis that the Spanish Minister at Washington had 
visited the Exposition and had expressed an opinion to 
the effect that it would be impolitic for the President of 
the Exposition to go to the Continent without visiting 
Spain, I cabled to the Executive Committee asking; 

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information as to the progress at home and requesting 
advice as to the advisability of my making a hurried 
visit to Paris, Madrid and Berlin. On Saturday, Febru- 
ary 28th, while awaiting a reply to this inquiry, I enter- 
tained the American Ambassador at luncheon, had a 
thorough talk with him concerning the outlook for the 
Exposition in England, and made to him a full written 
report of what other foreign countries had done toward 
participating and in making appropriations therefor, 
such a report having been requested of him by Lord 
Lansdowne. 

On Sunday, March 1st, I was invited by Lord Lunch 
Alverston, Lord Chief Justice of England, to lunch at ^rd chief 
his residence, the only other guest being Mr. Newton Justice. 
Crane, through whom the Lord Chief Justice had pre- 
viously sent me an invitation to visit him at his court, 
which invitation I had been unable to accept. It was 
understood that Lord Alverston, who had been a member 
of the English Commission to the Chicago Exposition, 
would also be appointed on the Commission to the 
St. Louis Exposition. The household of the Lord Chief 
Justice is presided over by his sister, Miss Webster. 
The lunch was pleasant and I trust profitable to the 
Exposition, Lord Alverston asking many questions con- 
cerning the Exposition, the extent of the grounds, the 
location of the site and the portion thereof which had 
been assigned to the buildings of foreign countries. His 
experience at previous expositions equips him for his duties 
in connection with ours. I learned from his conversation 
that the English Commission will make every effort to 
erect a building upon our grounds and make an exhibit in 
keeping with the position occupied by the British Empire 
among the nations of the earth. 

The Lord Chief Justice asked if the "Crisis," writ- The 
ten by Winston Churchill, which he had read with great ns,s ' 
interest, gave a correct statement of conditions and 

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Arranging 
the 

Continental 
Itinerary. 



occurrences in St. Louis at the time its scenes were 
enacted. He is a man of imposing presence, of great 
dignity, of charming affability and a delightful host. 

The remainder of the day was spent in arranging 
details with the foreign representatives and in prepar- 
ing for a visit by myself to the continental capitals 
above mentioned, provided no advice should be received 
from St. Louis requiring my immediate return home. 
I had wired on Sunday morning to the American Am- 
bassador at Paris and to Commissioner- General Lagrave, 
requesting that arrangements be made, if possible, for my 
reception by President Loubet on Monday afternoon, 
and had also wired Minister Hardy at Madrid requesting 
that the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Minister 
whose department had charge of Spain's participation 
in foreign Expositions be asked for an audience on 
Wednesday or Thursday, and had also wired to the 
American Ambassador at Berlin and to Imperial Com- 
missioner-General Lewald, requesting that efforts be made 
to secure an audience with the German Emperor at some 
hour during Monday, March 9th, the itinerary being 
arranged with a view of visiting the above mentioned 
capitals in the time specified, if possible, in order that 
I might catch the North German Lloyd Steamer 
Kronprinz Wilhelm, which was to clear from Bremen 
for New York on Tuesday, March 10th. The European 
representatives of the Exposition, when this itinerary 
was outlined to them, received it with becoming respect 
but with outspoken incredulity as to my ability to carry 
it out. The project was thoroughly discussed in all its 
bearings, and notwithstanding the emphatic doubt enter- 
tained by those who had had much more experience in 
Europe than I had, I concluded to make the effort, the 
physical hardships of the trip being least considered of 
all the objections presented or suggested. 



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CHAPTER III. 

Visit to France. 

I left London on the night of March 1st, at 9.00 
o'clock, and after a two hours' ride on the railroad, 
arrived at Dover; taking steamer for Calais, I reached 
there about 1.00 o'clock. At Calais I took a train 
for Paris, which was reached at 6.00 o'clock on the To Paris, 
morning of March 2d. This journey was the most un- 
comfortable and the most trying of all those taken 
during my sojourn in Europe. 

Soon after breakfast I was called upon by Mr. C. M. ACaii 
Schwab, President of the United States Steel Corporation, ^""schwab. 
who had been spending six months in Europe for his 
health, which now seems fully restored. He told me he 
proposed to return to America on the Kronprinz — the 
same steamer upon which I had planned to come home. 
Mr. Schwab talked freely about the Exposition, and as- 
sured me he would aid it in every way within his power. 

I was also honored by a call from Colonel Hunsicker, 
a citizen of the United States, a Pennsylvaniau by birth, 
who has for twelve years been the representative of the 
Carnegie and the United States Steel Companies. The 
Colonel had been very attentive to me in London, and hav- 
ing preceded me to Paris, had arranged a dinner for Sunday 
evening, March 1st, at the Hotel Ritz, at which I was to be 
the chief guest, and among the other guests were to be 
Sir Thomas Lipton and Mr. Schwab. During my stay in 
London Sir Thomas Lipton had been at the Riviera, but Sir Thomas 
had by cable instructed his secretary to call upon me 
and express his regrets that he was away from home 
during my presence in London, and to say to me that if 
I would remain until Monday, March 2d, he would 

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The 

Duchess of 

Manchester 

and 

Countess 

Kay. 



Oiiicial 
Calls. 



return to London and be pleased to entertain me. I had 
replied, regretting that my plans would not permit of 
my remaining in London beyond March 1st. Sir Thomas 
Iyipton arrived in London from Paris about an hour after 
I had left to make the same journey in the opposite 
direction. We exchanged several telegrams, and from 
several sources I was pleased to learn of his interest in 
the Exposition and of his activity in promoting an 
English exhibit thereat. His influence in England is 
important, and his acquaintance with the affairs of the 
United States, where he has investments and commercial 
relations, qualifies him to render material aid to our enter- 
prise. I much regret that we were unable to meet. 

During the forenoon of March 2d, Colonel Hunsicker 
informed me that the Dowager Duchess of Manchester 
{nee Miss Yznaga of New York) and her sister, the 
Countess Kay, were at the Ritz Hotel and desired to 
meet the President of the St. Louis Exposition. Taking 
advantage of the opportunity, I was presented and in- 
formed by the Duchess that King Edward had dined 
with her on the evening of Wednesday, February 25th, 
and had expressed such interest in the St. Louis Expo- 
sition, whose President he had met, during the same 
day, that she desired to know more about the Exposition 
herself. A like desire was manifested by the Countess 
Kay. I mention these incidents only to show how great 
a motive of Exposition exploitation and publicity in 
England is recognition by the King. 

About 10.00 o'clock I was informed by Commis- 
sioner-General Lagrave and also by Secretary of 
Embassy Vignaud that President Loubet would receive 
me at 5.00 o'clock in the afternoon; Ambassador 
Porter was confined to his residence by a severe 
attack of la grippe. Accompanied by the Commissioner- 
General, I called upon the Mayor of Paris and the 
Prefect of the Seine, and also upon the Minister of 

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Commerce, whose department has charge of French 
participation in foreign Expositions. The reception by 
these officers was cordial, all of them expressing the 
hope and conviction that France would have a creditable 
and interesting exhibit and erect an appropriate building at 
St. L,ouis in 1904. The Minister of Commerce extended 
to me verbally an invitation to a dinner to be given at 
8.00 o'clock the same evening at the Ministry. 

At 1.00 o'clock I was the guest at a luncheon given 
by Commissioner-General Lagrave at the Cafe de Paris, 
which was attended by Mr. Ives, Mr. Bowen, Mr. Hardee, 



Luncheon 
with 

Commis= 

sioner= 
General 
Lagrave. 




MICHEL LAGRAVE. 

Commissioner-General of France to the 
Universal Exposition, 1904. 

Mr. Taylor, Mr. Thompson and several other guests. Dur- 
ing the afternoon I was waited upon by the President and 
Secretary and an ex-President of the American Chamber of 
Commerce in Paris, and urged to name a date for a banquet 
which that organization desired to give me. I stated to 
them that my engagements would not permit my accepting 

23 



American 
Chamber of 
Commerce 
Tenders 
Banquet. 



Presentation 
to President 
Loubet. 



the proffered honor, as I would leave for Madrid on 
the following day, but would return to Paris on the 
evening of March 6th and leave for Berlin at 2.00 o'clock 
on the afternoon of March 7th. Thereupon the delega- 
tion stated that a breakfast would be arranged for the 
forenoon of March 7th. 

At the appointed hour, 5.00 o'clock, accompanied 
by Secretary of the Embassy Vignaud and Commissioner- 
General Lagrave, I repaired to the Blysee Palace to be 
presented to the President of the French Republic. His 
welcome was court- 
eous and very friendly. 
As he did not speak 
English and I was not 
sufficiently familiar 
with his language to 
converse with him in 
French, Messrs. Vig- 
naud and I^agrave 
acted as interpreters 
while taking part in 
the conversation 
themselves. The 
President evidently 
cherishes the desire 
that his country shall 
make a creditable 
exhibit at the St. Louis 
Exposition, and 
showed familiarity 
with the active prep- 
arations that are 
being made to that end. I assiired him that the Expo- 
sition would feel highly honored if he would visit 
it himself. He replied that while appreciating the 
invitation he feared that his duties and his age would 

24 




PRESIDENT LOUBET, OF FRANCE. 



prevent him giving- himself the pleasure of visiting 
America. He assured me he was confident the Exposi- 
tion would be eminently successful, as the American 
people always succeeded in what they undertook. He ex- 
pressed admiration for American character and energy and 
said the Exposition had his best wishes. The audience 
lasted about twenty-five minutes and was to me a most 
satisfactory and gratifying experience. The French 
papers took due notice of the reception, and its effect on 
the French exhibitors and on the French people generally 
was, in the judgment of Commissioner-General Eagrave, 
very helpful to the work of the French Commission. 

President Eoubet invited me to attend a state ball 
to be given at the Elysee Palace on the same evening, 
and stated he would send a card to my hotel, and that 
I might attend for thirty minutes if unable to stay 
longer. After leaving the palace of the President, I 
went unaccompanied to the residence of the American 
Ambassador, who had written me early in the day that Calling on 
he desired to see me, notwithstanding he was denying p ™ te a r a 
himself to callers generally ; I found him suffering from la 
grippe in a malignant form, his professional nurse warn- 
ing me before entering his presence that, although the 
Ambassador might insist upon my remaining, I should 
not do so, as a protracted visit would be injurious to 
him. The Ambassador regretted sincerely that he could 
not be of personal assistance to me while in Paris, but 
showed himself remarkably familiar with the progress of 
the Exposition and with the work being done in France 
toward a representative exhibit by that country. 

At 8.00 o'clock I attended the dinner at the Ministry Dinner at 

1 • 1 c rr • i tne Ministry 

of Commerce at which a number of government officials of Commerce 
and members of the Senate and Chamber of Deputies and officials of 
other representative citizens were present. I was greatly Government, 
impressed with the elegant appointments of the function, 
the equipment of a department of the government 

25 



The 

President's 

Ball 

and the 

Grand 

Opera. 



for providing such an entertainment being unsurpassed 
by any of the most noted restaurants or hotels in 
Paris, and such a condition being entirely unknown in 
America. The dinner was presided over by Mr. Georges 
Trouillot, Minister of Commerce, who proposed as the 
only sentiment of the evening, the "American Republic, 
President Roosevelt and the President of the Universal 
Exposition of 1904. ' ' My response to the toast, although 
purely extemporaneous and delivered in English, seemed 
to be understood by a majority if not all of my auditors, 
and was apparently well received, — in keeping with the 
reputation of the French people for proverbial politeness. 
There were forty or more plates at the table, the Minister 
of Public Instruction, the President of the French Sec- 
tion, the President of the Society of French Industrials, 
the Director of the Ministry of Commerce, the Com- 
mander-in-Chief of the French Army, the Chief of Cabinet 
of the Ministry of Commerce, being among the guests. 
The place of honor, instead of being at the right of the 
Chairman, was vis-a-vis to him. The attaches of the 
Exposition who accompanied me to Paris were also 
guests at the dinner. 

From the Ministry of Commerce, accompanied by 
Commissioner-General L,agrave, I went to the ball at 
Elysee Palace, where I was hospitably received by Presi- 
dent L<oubet, who advanced from the position in which 
he had received the guests who had preceded me, and 
honored me by a hearty shake of the hand, which 
appeared to be an exception to his practice of the 
evening, neither the guests who preceded me nor 
those who followed being honored in the same manner. 
After remaining at the ball about one hour and meeting 
a number of distinguished citizens of the French Repub- 
lic and several members of the Diplomatic Corps, I went 
with M. L,agrave to the Grand Opera House and saw 
the last act of " Salambo, the Daughter of Hamilcar." 

26 



In the forenoon of March 3d I was escorted by M. 
Lagrave to the Paris Chamber of Commerce, where I was Reception by 
flatteringly received by 300 or 400 of the merchants of commerce, 
that city, most if not all of whom had signified their 
intention of exhibiting at the St. Louis Exposition. 
After being introduced by the President of the Chamber 
I addressed the exhibitors in a speech of about twenty 
minutes, returning from there to the Hotel Ritz, whence, 
after a short talk with Ambassador Storer, who being in 
Paris, had called at the hotel to meet me, I hurriedly 
proceeded to the Quai d'Orsay, arriving there just in 
time to take the Sud Express for Madrid at twelve 
minutes past noon. The first act of the continental itin- 
erary had been finished and more accomplished in the 
brief period allotted to it than I had any right to expect. 



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CHAPTER IV. 

Spain. 

En route The journey to Madrid was without incident. The 

"train de luxe," which I had been told was by far the 
best train in Europe, did not make nearly as good time 
as many of our limited trains in America, nor were the 
accommodations to be compared with those luxurious 
trains operated between St. Eouis and the Atlantic sea- 
board. A change of cars at the Spanish border at mid- 
night was required ; it is customary at the same time and 
place for Spanish customs officers to inspect the baggage 
of all entering that country. In my case no examination 
was made, because a friend at Paris had secured for me a 
letter from the Spanish Minister there, which not only 
saved the trouble of opening two trunks and six pieces 
of hand luggage for inspection, but commanded the 
courteous and almost overwhelming attention of the 
Spanish customs officers. 

On arriving in Madrid at 3.00 o'clock on the after- 
noon of March 4th, I was met at the station by United 
States Minister Hardy, who accompanied me to the Hotel 
de Paris, where commodious and handsomely furnished 
rooms had been reserved. During the afternoon, accom- 
panied by Secretary of Legation Sickles, I called at the 
Ministry of Agriculture, but was informed that the 
Minister was engaged in cabinet council preparatory to 
a meeting of the Cabinet with the King on the following 
day, Thursday, the appointed time for the weekly con- 
ference. In the evening I dined with Minister and Mrs. 

Guest of Hardy, the other guests being Secretary and Mrs. 

Hardy at Sickles and Mr. Summers, who is representing the 

Dinner. United States government in the investigation of Spanish 

28 



war claims in Madrid. At 11.30 o'clock in the evening, 
accompanied by Mr. Summers, I went to the most fash- 
ionable theatre in Madrid, where a nightly performance 
is kept up until 2.00 o'clock and sometimes to a later a Night 

L L Loving City. 

hour. After remaining there about an hour we went to 
another theatre and thence to our hotels at about 1.30 
o'clock, at which hour the streets of Madrid were as full 

of people and of 
life as they had 
been at any hour 
during the day or 
evening. That 
condition, I was 
informed, obtains 
continuously, the 
people frequent- 
ing the streets in 
large numbers 
until a very late 
hour. 

On the fol- 
lowing day, 
March 5th, ac- 
companied by 
Minister Hardy, I 
called upon the 
President of the 
Cabinet, Sr. Sil- 
vela, and also on 
the Minister of 
Foreign Affairs, with whom engagements had been pre- 
viously made. We also called on the Minister of Agricul- 
ture, who presides over the department which has the 
supervision of Spanish participation in foreign expositions. 
Each of these conferences was characterized by thorough 
good feeling on the part of the Spanish Minister, who in 

29 




Approaching 
the Spanish 
Government. 



SR. SILVELA, PREMIER OF SPAIN. 



Securing a 
Resident 

Representa= 
live. 



every instance gave assurance that Spain will participate 
in the Exposition and make a creditable exhibit thereat. 
These statements were highly gratifying and under all 
the circumstances should be considered as a sufficient 
cause for congratulation on the part of the Exposition. 
The people of Spain do not seem to cherish any bitter- 
ness toward the citizens of our country, but manifested 
a genuine good will 
toward the Exposi- 
tion and an earnest 
desire to take part 
therein. 

While in Madrid 
I opened negotiations 
with a resident of 
that city to represent 
the Exposition in 
Spain. He is a man 
of broad culture and 
wide acquaintance, 
and not without ex- 
perience in exposi- 
tion exploitation. 
While the present 
government of Spain 
is unanimous in favor 
of Spain's participa- 
tion at St. Eouis in 
1904, still an appropriation by the Cortes is required, and 
in order to secure it, sentiment favorable thereto should 
be instilled into the people. Mr. Santiago Perez Triana, 
whom I engaged, is well equipped to bring about such 
a condition. 

I did not see the young King of Spain because there 
appeared to be a misunderstanding between Minister 
Hardy and the Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs as to 

30 




KING ALFONSO, OF SPAIN. 



in the 
Exposition. 



the time of my arrival at Madrid, the latter being under 
the impression that I was not due there until the morn- 
ing of Thursday, March 5th, and would depart the same 
evening. Regret was expressed by President Silvela The King's 

-r-v • • i i-i • Interest 

and the Foreign Minister that I could not remain over 
Friday, when there would be no question about the King 
being able to see me. My itinerary had been arranged, 
however, and could not be deviated from. President 
Silvela told me the King was interested in the Exposition 
and had expressed regret, when talking of my presence 
in Madrid, that he himself would be unable to visit the 
Exposition. 




IN MADRID. 
31 



1 called also upon the Marquis de Comillas, one of 
the most progressive men in Spain and president of the 
Spanish steamship line that operates between Spain and 
the Western Hemisphere. He manifested interest in the 
Exposition and promised his assistance toward a repre- 
sentative Spanish exhibit. 
a Passing In my judgment Spain is in better condition to-day 

and has a more promising future than she has had for 
many years past. The mass of the people are still 
imbued to a great extent with that hereditary pride that 
has made them indifferent to the progress or the occur- 
rences of the outer world, but there are exceptions to 
this rule and they are rapidly becoming more numerous. 
The material resources of Spain are but partially devel- 
oped and offer a tempting and profitable field for Ameri- 
can enterprise and capital. 

Madrid is a most interesting city, and I regret that 
my engagements did not permit of a longer stay therein. 
The numerous calls I was compelled to make upon 
Ministers of the government prevented me from visiting 
even the celebrated Del Prado, where are collected a 
number of the works of Velasquez and many other inter- 
esting objects of art. 



32 



CHAPTER V. 

Second Visit to Paris. 

I left Madrid at 7.40 o'clock on the evening of 
Thursday, March 5th, for Paris. On approaching the 
frontier of France about 11.00 o'clock in the forenoon of 
Friday, March 6th, the thought occurred to me that I 
would present to the customs officers my official card as President's 
President of the St. L,ouis Universal Exposition, in obviates 
order that I might be saved the annoyance of opening: Customs 

° J r fe Inspection. 

my baggage for inspection. My secretary and myself 
were encumbered with a trunk each and with six pieces 
of hand luggage, including a typewriter and a case of 
accumulated correspondence and stationery. The type- 
writer had given us more trouble in crossing boundaries 
than any other piece of baggage we had ; it appears to 
be a subject for tariff in most European countries, and 
in every instance we had to give assurance that it was 
exclusively for our own use. The presentation of the 
official card had the desired effect, the customs officers 
not only passing the baggage without examination, but 
showing us the utmost courtesy. Before clearing for 
America we had four more frontiers to cross, and it is 
unnecessary to say that I profited by my experience at 
the French-Spanish border and in every case exhibited 
my official card, and in each instance it had the same 
desired effect. At this writing, which is on the North 
German Eloyd steamer en route to America, I am won- 
dering whether the same official card will be treated with 
like consideration at the port of entry of our own 
country, which we are approaching. 

I arrived in Paris at 11.00 o'clock in the evening of Again 
Friday, March 6th, and was met at the Quai d'Orsay in Paris - 

33 




34 



station by Commissioner-General Lagrave and his secre- 
tary, and by Professor Ives and Mr. Hawkins Taylor, 
and by Mr. Bo wen's assistant in Paris, Mr. Villeroi, 
who accompanied me to the Hotel Ritz. Mr. L,agrave 
informed me that the breakfast tendered by the American 
Chamber of Commerce for Saturday, March 7th, had 
been combined with a much larger function, arranged 
by the French exhibitors under the direction of the 
French Minister of Commerce, M. Georges Trouillot; 
that the breakfast would be at the Hotel Continental at 
11.00 o'clock on Saturday morning, and would be 
attended by five hundred guests, comprising many officials 
of the Government and a great number of French merchants 
and manufacturers who proposed to exhibit at St. Louis. 

M. Lagrave took leave of me about 12.00 o'clock, Preparing 
but the conference between Messrs. Ives and Taylor and surprise, 
myself was prolonged until long after midnight. In the 
meantime my secretary was busily engaged in transcrib- 
ing the speech which I had dictated while en route from 
Madrid to Paris. I had seen from the Thursday morning 
issue of the Paris edition of the New York Herald a 
notice regarding the breakfast, and felt the occasion to 
be of sufficient importance to merit a prepared response 
on behalf of the Exposition. As the Minister of Com- 
merce spoke in French only, as was the case with the 
President of the French Republic and many other officials 
of the government, it occurred to me that my response 
at the breakfast, if delivered in the tongue of the country 
whose guest I was, would not only be more compli- 
mentary, but would serve to give a more cosmopolitan 
character to the Exposition. I therefore asked M. 
Lagrave to have the sentiments I had prepared trans- 
lated into French, and concluded to make the effort to 
read my response in French at the breakfast of Saturday. 

Before going to the breakfast I was honored by a 
call from the American Ambassador to the Court of 

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TITLE PAGE OF MENU, BREAKFAST AT HOTEL CONTINENTAL, MARCH 7th, 1903. 

36 



Austria, Hon. Bellamy Storer, who was in Paris on a talk with 
private business, and with whom I had by wire requested Storer 
an interview. Mr. Storer gave it as his judgment that it Re £ ardin g 

& . . Austria. 

would be inopportune for me to go to Vienna at this 
time, stating that after Mr. Stiasny had given the manu- 
facturers and probable exhibitors of that country some 
information concerning the scope of the Exposition, and 
after activity in Exposition preparations in other countries 
had impressed itself upon the people of Austria, it would 
be timely for me to approach the government of that 
country, but that any appeal to the Crown or Ministry 
at this juncture would be futile. I concluded to follow 
his advice; wrote Mr. Stiasny to redouble his efforts and 
directed Prof. Ives and Mr. Kohlsaatto proceed to Vienna 
as soon as the work they now have in hand would permit. 

The breakfast at the Hotel Continental was success- The Paris 

Breakfast. 

ful beyond my most sanguine expectations. It was 
presided over by M. Georges Trouillot, Minister of Com- 
merce, and was attended by many other officials of the 
government, the total attendance being nearly or quite 
five hundred. As I had informed Mr. L,agrave that I 
would be compelled to leave for Berlin on the Nord 
Express, leaving at 1.50 p. m., there was little time for 
speeches. About 12.30 the Chairman arose and in his 
own language delivered a speech, which met with 
the enthusiastic approval of his auditors . He was followed 
by M. Dupont, President of the French Section; he by 
the personal representative of President Loubet, and he 
by M. Cachard, President American Chamber of Com- 
merce in Paris. M. Trouillot then arose and presented 
me with a very handsome Sevres vase on behalf of the Reci " ,ent 

J m of Five 

Ministry of Public Instruction, the Sevres Works being Presents, 
the property of and operated by the French government ; 
M. Trouillot also presented me, on behalf of the Ministry 
of Commerce and the French Section, another vase of 
beautiful proportions, being a sample of the product of 

37 



A Speech 
in French. 



the French trade, and also an exquisite lace fan for Mrs. 
Francis. I was also presented with a plaquette by M. 
Ancelot, President, on behalf of the French Committee 
on Foreign Expositions of the French Chamber of Com- 
merce. M. Cachard, President American Chamber of 
Commerce in Paris, also presented me, on behalf of that 
body, with a most 
shapely silver loving 
cup. It is unnecessary 
to say how highly I ap- 
preciate these memen- 
toes. The acceptance 
of them and acknowl- 
edgment of my grati- 
tude had not been 
anticipated in the re- 
sponse prepared for 
delivery in French, 
consequently I was 
forced to give utterance 
in my mother tongue 
to the deep sense of 
obligation experienced. 
This ordeal did not 
render me better fit for 
the trying effort of the 
French address — but it 
was too late to look 
back. Abandoning the plan was as dangerous as failing in 
the attempt. Suffice it to say that I managed to complete 
the task, and my French auditors, with their proverbial 
politeness, expressed such approval that I felt more than 
compensated for the labor undergone and the risk 
incurred. I append to this report a copy of the French 
address in the hope that it may encourage every member 
of the Board of Directors to the study of that language, to 
the end that when our French visitors come to the Expo- 
sition in 1904 they may be welcomed in their own 
tongue. 

38 




MAGNIFICENT SEVRES VASE, 

Presented to President Francis by M. Chaumie, 
Minister of Public Instruction. 



CHAPTER VI. 

Germany. 

Leaving Paris on the Nord Express at 1.50 on 
Saturday afternoon, March 7th, I arrived at Berlin at 
8.40 the next morning, being accompanied by L,ieut. Sunday 
Godfrey L,. Carden, whom I had requested to meet me in erin * 
in Paris. Feeling the need of a short respite from the 
tension incident to official receptions and calls, I did not 
advise the American Ambassador nor the Imperial Com- 
missioner-General to the Exposition, Doctor Lewald, of 
my arrival in Berlin. During the afternoon of Sunday, 
however, both of those officials learned of my presence, 
sent their cards to the Hotel Bristol, where I had engaged 
rooms, and I thereupon called at the residence of each 
of them. In the evening I dined with the American 
Ambassador and Mrs. Tower, and was informed that 
Emperor William would receive me at noon the following 
day, Ambassador Tower stating he had not been advised 
whether he would be expected to accompany me to the 
audience or whether I would be received alone, but he 
had made inquiry in order to ascertain the wishes of the 
Emperor. During the evening a message was received 
by the Ambassador stating that the Emperor would see 
me alone. 

After my return to the hotel, about 11.00 o'clock, 
Dr. Lewald called and invited me to a luncheon for the 
following day. 

During Monday forenoon, accompanied by the Ex- 
position representative in Berlin, Mr. Brucker, I left my 
card at the official residences of Chancellor von Buelow, 
of Foreign Minister von Richthofen, and of Minister of 
the Interior von Posadowsky. At the appointed hour I 

39 



A Fifty 

Minute 

Audience 

with the 

German 

Emperor. 



presented myself at the royal palace and was in due time 
received by His Majesty, the German Emperor. I was 
shown to a room, which, after a few minutes, the German 
Emperor entered unattended. He advanced by a quick 
step, extended his hand, expressed a cordial welcome 
and for more than fifty minutes favored me with an 
interview which demonstrated that his reputation for 
general information, 
deep insight, keen 
observation and in- 
domitable will power, 
remarkable versatil- 
ity and great strength 
of character is well 
deserved. During 
my sojourn in Europe 
I was often told that 
in receptions by mon- 
archical rulers, not 
onlyshould thelength 
of my visit be regu- 
lated by my royal 
host, but that he 
should lead the con- 
versation, and that no 
subject should be 
discussed unless 
broached by himself. 
I am compelled to 
say that in the conversation of nearly an hour which I 
had with Emperor William II. of Germany, I cannot 
recall whether the topics touched upon were first men- 
tioned by His Majesty or by myself. He impressed me 
as being sincerely desirous to learn of every advance that 
is made in every line of human endeavor throughout the 
world. He was unstinted in his praise of American 

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EMPEROR WILLIAM II. OF GERMANY. 



ingenuity and enterprise, and asserted with candor, and 
it may be with pride, that it was his policy to copy 
from us whatever he thought worthy of imitation. He 
expressed great interest in the Exposition, said he hoped 
it would be eminently successful and was confident it 
would be. He said he had already announced his 
intention of sending for exhibit some of his plate and 
other treasures which might be of interest to the Ameri- 
can people, and in response to an inquiry from me stated 
there was no objection to my so informing the 
Exposition management and the American people. He 
trusted the German exhibit would be a representative 
one, and was sure its educational features would be 
striking and probably instructive. In the course of the 
conversation he alluded to a work by Houston Chamber- 
lain, an Englishman living in Vienna — a recent publi- 
cation called the "Foundation of the Nineteenth Cen- 
tury," and when I remarked that I had not seen the 
work, he said he would be glad to present me with a 
copy. Learning that I would feel honored by such a His Majesty 

Prpspnts 3 

gift, he stepped to a door, called an aide, who in a few Bookandhis 
moments handed the Emperor a copy of Houston Stewart Autograph - 
Chamberlain's " Die Grundlagen des Neunzehnten Jahr- 
hunderts" which he passed to me. In returning my 
thanks I suggested that his autograph, indicating the 
source of the gift, would be prized, whereby he promptly 
replied, "Certainly," and taking the book, inscribed on 
the flyleaf: "Berlin, March 9th, 1903, Wilhelm, I. R., 
to Mr. Francis, President of the St. Eouis Exposition." 
The text is in German and I regret to say that upon 
inquiry at a book store in Berlin I was told that it has 
never been translated into English, the author main- 
taining that although it was his mother tongue, the 
thoughts he desired to convey could be better expressed 
in German, and that much of their force and meaning 
would be lost if translated into English. 

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That this interview was interesting and instructive 
to a degree to myself personally goes without saying; 
that it was of great benefit to the Exposition in attracting 
thereto the attention of the German people, there can be 
no doubt. The subjects of the German Emperor not 
only revere him as a ruler of wisdom and force, but 
respect him as a man whose every desire and aim is to 
promote their welfare and add to the prestige of their 
country among the nations of the earth. The stereo- 
typed sayings and well-worn platitudes about the effete 
monarchies of Europe are not applicable to all of the 
countries of the Old World in the beginning of the 
twentieth century. A ruler whose active and well- 
trained intellect keeps pace with the advances in the 
arts and in science, and whose watchful eye is ever upon 
the methods and the accomplishments of those whose 
trust he holds, whose energy and perseverance are 
marvelous and unsurpassed, is never content that his 
people should hold a second place in the march of 
human progress. 
Breakfast From the royal palace I called at the American 

BnLewaid Embassy and was thence accompanied by Ambassador 
Tower to the luncheon of Dr. Lewald at the Hotel 
Bristol. This function was elegant and enjoyable. The 
American Ambassador occupied the seat at the right of 
the host and I that at his left. The guests were twenty- 
six in number, comprising Count Tallerand-Perigord, 
Dr. Paasche, member of the Reichstag; Dr. Hopf, Under 
Secretary of State; Dr. Wilhelmi, President of the Im- 
perial Bureau of Statistics; Mr. Loewe, Manager of 
Eudwig Eoewe & Co., large shipbuilders and gun manu- 
facturers; Consul-General Frank H. Mason, Professor 
Bruno Schmitz, and Mr. Mannheimer, head of the largest 
cloak establishment in Germany. The luncheon was 
attended by Mr. Brucker, Eieut. Carden and my secretary, 
Mr. Thompson. There were no set speeches, but Dr. 

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Lewald proposed "The Louisiana Purchase Exposition" 
and I made an impromptu response, which was taken by 
a stenographer and is attached to this report. 

In the afternoon, escorted by Ambassador Tower, I 
called upon Chancellor von Buelow and Foreign Minister 
von Richthofen, both of whom speak English fluently, as 
does theEmperor. Our reception was cordial and kind, the 
Chancellor congratulating the American people on being so Gratifying 
well represented at the court of Berlin, saying our Ambas- ^T " 
sador was a credit to the United States. These Misisters — Chancellor 

. , t* t • , -, • .and Foreign 

as was the Emperor — were outspoken in their expressions Minister. 
of admiration for President Roosevelt and of the kindly 
feeling of the people of Germany for those of our country. 
In the evening I was the guest at a dinner given by 
Foreign Minister von Richthofen at his official residence. 
The guests were twenty-two in number. Among them 
were the American Ambassador, Hon. Charlemagne 
Tower; Secretary of Legation Richardson ; U. S. Consul- 
General Mason; the Minister of State, Count von Foreign 
Posadowsky-Wehner, of the Imperial Department of the Richthofen"" 
Interior; Moeller, Prussian Minister of Commerce; Dinner - 
Budde, Prussian Minister of Public Works; General 
Prinz zu Salm-Horstmar, Vice-President of the German 
Committee for the Olympic Gaines to be held in St. 
Louis; Under Secretary of State von Muhlberg, Foreign 
Office; von Koerner, Director in the Foreign office; Dr. 
Richter, Director in the Imperial Department of the 
Interior; Privy-Councillor of Legation von Aichberger; 
Commissioner - General Lewald; Prof. Anton von 
Werner, one of the leading artists in Berlin; Dr. von 
Martius; E. Borsig and C. Borsig, owners of one of 
the largest locomotive works in Germany; E. Loewe, 
another "Captain of Industry;" Prof, von Uechtritz, 
famous sculptor; the general agent of the New York 
Life Insurance Company, von Nimptsch; Mr. Brucker, 
Vice-consul von Jacobs and Count zu Limburg-Stirum. 

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U. S. CONSUL-GENERAL MASON. IMPERIAL GERMAN 

COMMISSIONER-GENERAL LEWALD. 
U. S. AMBASSADOR TOWER. 
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During- that day I had wired Minister Townsend at 
Brussels, asking that he arrange an audience with the An 
King of Belgium for Tuesday, March 10th, if possible, tothe 
having learned that I could spend twelve hours in the Program - 
capital of Belgium and reach Cherbourg in time to take 
the North German Lloyd steamer Kronprinz Wilhelm, 
which was to clear from Bremen for New York on 
Tuesday, March 10th, and on which I had engaged pas- 
sage home. Minister Townsend had promptly replied that 
he would make effort to comply with my request, but that 
King Leopold was staying at his country residence, about 
forty minutes ride outside of Brussels. Later in the day 
I received another message from Minister Townsend, 
stating the audience had been arranged for 4.00 o'clock 
Tuesday afternoon. Consequently at 11.00 o'clock 
Monday evening I took the train at Berlin for Brussels, 
after a stay of thirty-six hours in the capital of the Ger- 
man Empire, where the attention shown the President of 
the St. Louis Universal Exposition was complimentary 
in a high degree, where he had made many distinguished 
and pleasant acquaintances, where he had received 
numerous assurances from representative and influential 
people of their intention to visit the Exposition, and 
where his personal experience had been enjoyable and 
nattering and worthy of grateful remembrance. 



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CHAPTER VII. 



Minister 

Townsend's 

Hospitality. 



A Joint 
Reception. 



Belgium. 

I arrived at Brussels at 11.00 o'clock on the morn- 
ing of Tuesday, March 10th, and was met at the station 
by the American Minister, Hon. Lawrence Townsend, 
who insisted that myself and secretary accompany him 
to the legation, which is a residence and office in one, 
a customary practice in Brussels and not unusual in 
Berlin. On arrival at the legation I met its efficient 
secretary, Mr. Robert E. Winthrop, who has creditably 
filled that position for more than twenty years, and who, 
the Minister informed me, had from the beginning of our 
undertaking been active in its support in Belgium. Mr. 
Townsend and Mrs. Townsend, a charming hostess, 
gave evidence of deep interest in the St. Louis Exposi- 
tion by their familiarity with its scope and with the 
progress of its physical work on the site, as well as the 
state of its domestic and foreign exploitation. Both are 
close readers of the monthly Bulletin, and have spared 
no effort to bring about the participation of Belgium, 
whose response had at first been a declination; but 
through the influence of the American Minister and the 
Exposition representatives, who had spent some time in 
Brussels, a reconsideration was brought about and a few 
days before my arrival an appropriation of 500,000 francs 
had been made and a formal announcement of participation 
given through our Department of State. 

Minister Townsend had arranged that he and myself 
should call upon Prime Minister de Schmed and Minister 
of Agriculture Francotte at their respective departments. 
By previous understanding, however, these Ministers 
gave me a joint reception at the Department of State, 

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where, accompanied by Minister Townsend, we discussed 
the Louisiana Purchase Exposition and Belgium's par- 
ticipation therein for more than one hour. 

Minister Townsend had insisted that both myself and 
secretary should remain at his residence during our short 
stay in Brussels, and refused to accept a declination of 
his proffered hospitality. I was more than pleased to 

avail myself of 
such highly cul- 
tured associa- 
tions and sur- 
roundings so con- 
genial. After 
lunch I was hon- 
ored by a call 
from the British 
Minister, Sir Con- 
stantine Phipps, 
who was accom- 
panied by Mr. 
Arthur Raikes,' 
Secretary of the 
British Embassy 
at Washington, 
but who at that 
time was visiting 
Brussels, where 
he had formerly been stationed as Secretary of the British 
Legation. Baron Lambert, the head of Rothschilds' 
banking house in Belgium, had been invited to meet me 
at luncheon, but was prevented from doing so by other 
engagements. Having a few minutes unprovided for 
before the appointed hour (4.00 o'clock) for the reception 
by King Leopold, and desiring to replenish my depleted 
exchequer, Minister Townsend escorted me to the 
Brussels branch of Rothschilds, where Baron Lambert 

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KING LEOPOLD OF BELGIUM. 



A Call 
from the 
British 
Minister. 



The 
Rothschilds. 



The Royal 
Audience. 



The King 
Regrets he 
Cannot 
Visit the 
Exposition. 



made many inquiries concerning- the St. Eouis Universal 
Exposition and expressed his intention of visiting it. 
Thence we went to the palace, where the American 
Minister and myself were cordially welcomed by King 
Leopold, a progressive monarch, who is said by Europeans 
and others to be imbued with the American instinct of 
trade and accumulation. The King knew much about 
the Exposition but desired to learn more, and I was glad 
of an opportunity to give him all the information on the 
subject that I was able to impart. The conversation 
continued for one hour. (I had for the fifth time been 
cautioned that an audience by royalty should not be 
terminated by anyone other than the royal host himself.) 
During that time King Iyeopold often expressed admira- 
tion for the push of the American people and the con- 
viction that the Exposition of 1904 would surpass all 
of its predecessors. He remembered that Mr. Thomas 
F. Walsh, of Colorado, had at my request extended to 
him an invitation to visit the Exposition, and expressed 
great regret that his years and his duties and responsi- 
bilities would probably, if not certainly, prevent his 
accepting. As President, and on behalf of the Exposi- 
tion, I renewed the invitation, but was of course careful 
not to commit the Federal goverment, which I had not 
the authority to represent. The King said he hoped the 
Belgian exhibit would be representative and creditable to 
his country, the area and population and resources of 
which, he declared, could not be compared either with 
those of the United States or of European countries 
which are making preparations for participation in the 
Exposition. The Minister and myself assured him of 
the appreciation of our country and of the Exposition 
of Belgium's acceptance of the invitation, and gave him 
sincere assurances that the exhibit of Belgian industries 
and art could be such as to cause him and his people no 
sensations other than those of satisfaction and pride. 

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After the termination of this interview, which I trust 
will not be without beneficial results, Minister Townsend 
and I proceeded to the Belgian House of Parliament. Belgian 
The session had just adjourned, but we met several of Parliament, 
the members and were accorded the unusual liberty of 
going through the corridors and chambers of a beautiful 
and imposing structure. Belgium, with its dense and 
thrifty population, covers an area comparatively small 
even for Europe, and I was informed that it was the AUnique 
general, if not the universal, custom for the members Custom, 
of the Parliament to go to their respective homes for 
dinner after the labors of a day of legislation, which, to 
a citizen of this country, is almost incomprehensible. 
It is difficult for one to imagine even the members of one 
of our State Legislatures dining and sleeping at their 
residences between the daily sessions of the body which 
they compose, and when a like cnstom is thought of for 
members of the Congress at Washington, the mind 
promptly turns to the daily use of the air ships, which 
it is hoped the Universal Exposition of 1904 will so 
perfect as to make them agencies of hourly transportation. 

After a delightful American dinner at the home of 
our hospitable Minister and Mrs. Townsend, I accom- 
panied them to the opera, where we were shown to the The 
royal box, in which I had the honor of meeting several at °J£ e 
members of the diplomatic corps at Brussels. The 0pera - 
opera was a new one, whose author, a promising com- 
poser of Liege, Belgium, was in the audience. It was 
a gala night in musical circles in the cultured kingdom 
which has bestowed so many priceless boons on the 
votaries of Mozart and of Wagner and of Beethoven. 

On my way to the train I was again joined by 
Lieut. Carden, who had gone from Berlin to Liege, 
where he had visited the well-known manufacturing 
establishment of the John Cockerill Company, makers 
of boilers, and had met with marked success, which, he 

49 



said, had been accomplished without much effort, 
attributable in his judgment to the attention shown the 
President of the Exposition in the countries visited by 
him during the previous ten days. Iyieut. Garden 
was to remain in Belgium a few days and go thence to 



A 




NORTH GERMAN LLOYD STEAMSHIP KRONPRINZ WILHELM. 



Germany and Switzerland in prosecution of the work he 
is so well fitted to perform. 

Taking a midnight train at Brussels, myself and 
secretary proceeded to Paris, where we arrived at 5.40 

50 



Miles at 
Sea. 



o'clock on the morning of Wednesday, March 11th. Tuesday 
At the Hotel Terminus we were again met by Professor aHBrussei™ 
Ives and Mr. Villeroi. After breakfasting- we took the Wednes<3a y 

Night, a 

train for Cherbourg, which point was reached at half- Hundred 
past three in the afternoon. The North German Lloyd 
steamer Kronprinz Wilhelm, which had cleared from 
Brussels at noon on the previous day, and from South- 
ampton at 12.30 on Wednesday, reached Cherbourg at 
5.00 o'clock. Our baggage, large and small, including 
the typewriter, which had been of such useful service on 
the steamer, in London, and on all trains on the con- 
tinent, was transferred to the tug and thence to the 
Kronprinz. It was followed by Mr. Thompson and 
myself, and we were in that frame of mind and body 
which prepared us to enjoy the restful pleasures of an 
ocean voyage home. 



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CHAPTER VIII. 

Acknowledgments . 

I have given, perhaps in tiresome detail, a consecutive 
narrative of my experience in Europe during eighteen 
days. It is for you to judge and results to determine 
whether the tour is beneficial to the Exposition. At 
this writing, March 16th, I have seen no St. Louis 
papers of a date later than February 21st, but have had 
excerpts from two New York papers of February 24th and 
.Resume. February 25th, which indicated that these publications 
gave the Exposition more space in describing the atten- 
tion shown its President in Europe than they have ever 
accorded it in any previous issue. I have stated above 
what in my judgment was the effect on the people of 
each country by a special or private audience given by 
the ruler thereof to the Exposition's President. When 
the continental tour was outlined, not only did every 
Londoner express conviction as to my inability to carry 
it out, but nearly all of the Exposition representatives 
in Europe were of the opinion that it was impossible, 
and that the effort might result in my discomfiture and 
in damage to our foreign exploitation. When I started 
from London, it was not contemplated that I would be 
able to see the King of Belgium, which, as narrated 
above, was accomplished in addition to the plan pro- 
posed at the London conference of March 1st. I am 
sure you will not misunderstand me when I state that 
the expressions of the European press concerning this 
tour were of such a character as to give publicity to the 
Exposition to such an extent as could not have been 
effected by a deliberately planned exploitation requiring 
fourfold the time and costing many times the expense. 

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It is hard for Americans to understand the difficulties 
incident to a special reception by the rulers of European 
countries, who themselves are accustomed not only to fix 
the time for such audiences, but to name therefor a date 
more or less remote from the day when it is requested. 
I cannot in this connection give too much credit for the 
very discreet and effective services rendered by the 
American ambassadors and ministers in the capitals I 
visited: Ambassador Choate at London, Ambassador 
Porter at Paris, Ambassador Tower at Berlin, Minister 
Hardy at Madrid, and Minister Townsend at Brussels; 
together with their efficient secretaries; Henry White in 
England, Henry Vignaud in France, Reynolds Hitt in 
Germany, Stanton Sickles in Spain, and Robert E. 
Winthrop in Belgium, were not only ready and willing 
to arrange for audiences and receptions when requested, 
but themselves suggested calls and courtesies which 
tended to promote the object of my mission. Further- 
more, I should be recreant to my own feelings, if I failed 
to acknowledge the good will manifested and the helpful 
assistance rendered by Consul-General Evans in London, 
Consul-General Mason in Berlin, Consul-General Gowdy 
in Paris, Commissioner-General Lagrave in Paris, 
Imperial Commissioner-General Lewald in Berlin, by 
Mr. F. C. Van Duzer, Secretary of the American Society 
in London, and by Messrs. James C. Stewart and Newton 
Crane, formerly St. Louisans, now living in London, 
where their energy and ability command a well-earned 
influence and an enviable respect. 



53 



Conclusions. 

No right-thinking- citizen of the United States can 
approach her shores, after an absence of five weeks, with- 
out sensations of genuine delight on returning, and 
without cherishing increased devotion to the institutions 
of his country and a deeper pride in her achievements. 
At the same time, however, even a superficial study of 
the governments of the Old World and of the motives 
that inspire their rulers and ministers, cannot but im- 
press one with the belief that in Europe, as in America, 
the spirit of the age is one of progress. Forms of 
government, although hedged about with the pomp and 
power of military force and based upon hereditary in- 
stincts, time-honored traditions and customs of centuries, 
cannot be sustained without keeping pace with the 
modern methods and broad views that characterize the 
dawn of the twentieth century. The rude awakening 
which Spain received from the short-lived conflict with 
the United States might, without doing violence to 
sound judgment or showing indifference to misfortune, 
be termed a blessing in disguise. The progressive minds 
of the quondam mistress of the world, realizing the 
conditions, admit the fact, confessing that no less severe 
a shock would have aroused to activity the genius of a 
nation which had been lulled into a feeling of security 
and a state of inertia by pride in the achievements and 
triumphs continuing through cycles of success. Within 
the limits of Spain, confined by the Mediterranean, the 
Atlantic and the Pyrenees, awaiting development, are 
resources richer than those of the Spanish colonies, 
whose products and wealth led the people of the mother 
country into a life of luxury and idleness. There are 
still those in the land of Columbus who are imbued 
with an unshaken confidence in the inherited prowess of 
Castilian superiority, and contend that their defeats were 
not merited, but were purchased by the gold of their 
adversaries. Such, however, are few in number and are 
rapidly passing away. 

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CHAPTER IX. 

New York, and Home Again. 

The foregoing report was written upon the steamship 
before landing in New York harbor on Tuesday, March 
17th, where, after a detention of about six hours in 
quarantine on account of a case of small-pox aboard, I 
landed about 6.00 o'clock in the afternoon, and was met Landing in 

New York 

by Director John Scullin and six or ten newspaper 
representatives. It was then that I received my first 
knowledge of the interest with which the tour had been 
followed by the press of the United States. As I had 
not seen a St. Louis paper of later date than February 
21st, nor a New York paper of later date than 
February 24th, I was not advised as to the space that 
had been given in the columns of the St. Louis papers 
or in those of any other publications. 

On arriving at the Waldorf I learned that a dinner 
had been arranged for me in New York by the Missouri 
Society of that city ; that the date fixed therefor was 
Thursday, March 19th. As extensive preparations had 
been made for the function, over 400 acceptances having 
been received, I did not feel at liberty to decline the 
honor, although very desirous to reach home as soon as 
possible. 

I was also asked by the New York Commission to 
the Exposition to name an evening when I could accept 
a dinner from them, but was compelled to ask that the 
compliment be deferred until a more convenient season. 

The dinner of the Missouri Society came off on the 
date fixed, and was pronounced by those who attended it 
to be an enjoyable and highly successful assembling in 
the metropolis of the country of 500 representative 

55 




Pi 

o 

> 

m 

> 

m 

o 
o 

CO 

S 

D 
O 

CO 

CO 



56 



Americans in the interest of the Louisiana Purchase The 

— . .. » -i i „ • c l c\m. t Missouri 

Exposition. A delegation of twenty or more St. Louis- society 
ans, headed by Vice-President Corwin H. Spencer, Dinner - 
attended the dinner, having- gone to New York for that 
purpose. The boxes surrounding the banquet hall about 
9.00 o'clock became filled with ladies in evening dress, 
who had been invited to listen to the after-dinner speeches. 
The president of the Missouri Society, Mr. Augustus 
Thomas, a former St. Louisan, was the toast-master, 
and presided in his happy and inimitable manner. 
Sentiments were responded to by Lieut. -Gov. John A. 
Lee, Hon. E. O. Stanard, Hon. Lewis Nixon, Mr. 
Melville E. Stone, Hon. John M. Thurston and myself. 
The theme of every one of these efforts was the Univer- 
sal Exposition of 1904, its promise and its scope, and 
the effect upon the undertaking of the tour through 
Europe just made by its President. 

The following St. Louisans were present at the 
dinner: C. H. Spencer, Charles W. Knapp, John 
Schroers, D. M. Houser, L. D. Dozier, Win. H. 
Thomson, Isaac W. Morton, M. B. Miltenberger, Thomas 
H. Francis, E. O. Stanard, William H. Lee, J. D. Perry 
Francis, J. E. Smith, John A. Lee, F. E. Marshall, 
Festus J. Wade. 

On the following day, March 20th, I attended a 
luncheon at the University Club given by the pnblishers 
or representatives of the weekly and monthly periodicals Luncheon 
of New York and vicinity. I was told that about sixty Quoin ciub. 
of such publications were represented at the function, 
which was presided over by Mr. J. R. Mix, president of 
the organization. After a response by myself to the 
sentiment of the Exposition and its President, talks were 
made by Mr. Hamilton W. Mabie, editor of the Outlook; 
Mr. Richard Watson Gilder, editor of the Century; 
Mr. Walter Page, editor of 77?^ World's IVoi'k, and 
others. The speakers and all of those present pledged 

57 



to the Exposition the support of the interests they 
represented. The sentiments expressed were especially 
happy, and taken altogether the occasion was, in my 
judgment, in its value to the Exposition, one of the most 
beneficial I have ever participated in. Messrs. Chas. W. 
Knapp and John Schroers, of the Publicity Committee, 
and Mr. E. D. Dozier, of the Executive Committee, 
accompanied me to the luncheon. 

On leaving the University Club we repaired to the 
New York Press Club on Nassau Street, where a 
reception had been arranged. We found one hundred 
or more newspaper men awaiting our arrival. The 
president of the Club, Mr. Joseph Howard, of the 
Reception by New York Herald, called the attendance to order, 

NpW i OI*K 

Press Club. an d after making some remarks, asked me to respond 
for the Exposition. Speeches were made by Mr. 
Hermann Ridder, editor of the New York Staats- 
Zeitung; by Mr. Wiley, editor of the New York Times, 
and by Mr. Chas. W. Knapp. On behalf of the Exposi- 
tion, I invited the Press Club to visit us in St. Eouis 
and learn more about the scope and progress of our work, 
which, I regret to say, the New York press had given 
very inadequate attention to until interest had been 
aroused in England and other European countries. 

Eeaving New York on the evening of March 20th, 
I went to Washington, having previously arranged an 
audience with President Roosevelt, who coupled with 
his acceptance of my request an invitation to lunch 
with him at the White House. 

After calling at the State Department and making 
acknowledgments to Mr. Hay, Secretary of State, of the 
valuable assistance rendered by the Ambassadors and 
Ministers of our country on my European tour, I 
proceeded to the White House, where I was cordially 
received by the President, who, from the time of his 
succession to the office he holds, has ever manifested a 

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Luncheon 
with the 
President. 



helpful interest in our undertaking, as did his prede- 
cessor, the lamented President McKinley. President 
Roosevelt expressed gratification that I had made the 
visit to foreign countries and that my efforts abroad 
appeared to have met with a responsive interest in 
the countries I had visited. After making proper 

acknowledgments 
to the representa- 
tives in Washing- 
ton of the European 
governments by 
which I had been 
so flatteringly re- 
ceived, I joined the 
St. Iyouis delega- 
tion, headed by 
Vice - President 
Spencer, which 
was en route home, 
and arrived in St. 
Ivouis on the even- 
ing of Sunday, 
March 2 2d, having 
been away from my 
office just forty 
days, of which 
seven days had 
been spent be- 
tween St. Iyouis and the Atlantic seaboard, fourteen 
days on the ocean, nine in England and ten on the 
continent. 

On Monday, March 23d, there was a public reception Reception at 

11 » ta 1 i'iii • Merchants' 

at the Merchants Exchange, at which the demonstration Exchange, 
of good-will on the part of my fellow-townsmen was SL Lou,s ' 
touching and complimentary to a degree. Attached 
hereto is a copy of the resolutions passed by the 

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PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT. 




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meeting and of the remarks made by myself on that 
occasion. 

On the evening: of March 23d Mayor Wells gave a Mayor 

_ Wells 

dinner at the St. Louis Club, at which it was my good Dinner, 
fortune to be the guest of honor. Attached to this 
report is a list of those who attended, as well as the 
names of those who made speeches. Mayor Wells, the 
host, presided with his accustomed grace and dignity, 
and his opening remarks indicate so strongly his interest 
in the Exposition that I have decided to reproduce them, 
notwithstanding they are complimentary of myself. 



The foregoing is a complete account of my official 
acts and movements from February 10th to March 23d, 
1903. That portion of the report which ends with my 
landing in New York harbor on March 17th was written 
on board the North German Lloyd steamer Kronprinz 
Wilhelm; the remainder, after my arrival in St. Louis. 

Since my return home the Exposition Company has 
been officially advised of the acceptance by Italy and by 
Spain of the invitation extended to them to participate 
in the Exposition. Italy had previously made two 
declinations; Spain had made no response. Advices of 
this date indicate that Norway, Sweden and Denmark 
are giving favorable consideration to our invitation. 
Russia, although having previously declined, has again 
taken into consideration the making of a representative 
exhibit. We also have information to the effect that the 
government and people of Austria, although heretofore 
rather outspoken in their disinclination to accept our 
invitation, are disposed to reconsider their previously 
formed conclusions. Advices from the representatives 
whom I sent from London to Russia, Austria, Norway 
and Sweden show that they are making good progress 

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in the difficult tasks assigned them. Taken altogether, 
the Exposition Company has ample grounds to felicitate 
itself and to congratulate the country on the participation 
of foreign countries in the celebration of the acquisition 
of the Louisiana Territory, which celebration promises 
to merit in every sense of the word the name of Universal 
Exposition . 

Respectfully submitted, 

David R. Francis, 

President. 



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RESPONSE 

At Dinner of the American Society in London, 
February 23d, 1903. 



I have journeyed five thousand miles — more than 
one-sixth of the circumference of the earth — over land and 
sea, to be present on this occasion, but I feel abundantly 
repaid. 

To our host, the American Society in London, I 
desire first to express the appreciation of the Universal 
Exposition of 1904, and also to make my personal 
acknowledgments for this very distinguished compli- 
ment. We feel honored that our brethren in a foreign 
land cherish a sufficient interest in the great undertak- 
ing upon which we have entered to desire to know 
something more of our plans and hopes, and feel 
flattered that the occasion is graced by the presence 
of so many worthy representatives of our English ances- 
tors and of the British Empire. Neither the length of 
the voyage nor the probable discomforts attending it 
should possess any terrors for a descendant of that dar- 
ing and hardy manhood which has subjugated continents 
and founded empires, and which ancestry you, as well as 
all of its offspring, are proud to claim. 

Although many generations have elapsed since our 
forefathers left these hospitable shores, we still feel a 
pride and claim a heritage in the glorious accomplish- 
ments and the incomparable record in warfare, govern- 
ment, art, literature, and all the lines of human endeavor 

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made by a people whose force and genius have never 
been surpassed, if ever equaled. 

You Americans will certainly understand, and our 
English cousins will pardon the pride which we of the 
United States cherish in our progress of a century past 
and in the position we occupy among the nations of the 
world. * * * 

England, with the memories of her sons, whose 
achievements she so commendably delights to honor, 
can readily understand how her kinsmen are prompted 
by a desire to commemorate lives and deeds so fraught 
with benefit to humanity. The spirit inherited from you 
impelled us to advance our frontier until it was abolished 
by the waves of the Pacific Ocean. After subjugating the 
savage, we are engaged in his education and elevation. 
By perseverance and science we have overcome and 
utilized the forces of nature. What was an unknown 
country, if not a wilderness, within the allotted life of 
man, has become the seat of the productive power of the 
American Union. * * * 

But I have not come here to boast. We have had 
time and opportunity to observe and to have burned into 
our memories a realizing conception of the transitory 
character of human institutions. We hope we have 
profited by the prophecies of Macaulay. It is our desire 
to build for the future and not for the present only. We 
admire your conservatism. We realize the problems that 
confront us — the dangers that beset our pathway. We 
are not unmindful of our duty to posterity and mankind. 
While asking other countries and other nationalities to 
be our guests and to participate in our commemoration, 
we are not forgetful of nor ungrateful for the inestimable 
contribution made to our possessions and to our popula- 
tion by the thousands of adopted sons and daughters 
who have left their lares and penates and taken up their 
abode among us. * * * 

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This country has advised of its acceptance, but 
in a limited manner, confining its exhibit to Art and 
Education. It has not appointed a Royal Commission, 
nor has it taken any steps toward the erection of a 
building. We have never had any doubt as to what this 
government would do, when in its own time it should 
acquire a thorough grasp of the plan and scope of the 
Exposition. 

The work of preparing for the celebration was begun 
early in 1898, but before it w r as well under way our 
country became involved in a foreign war, which, 
although of short duration, added glory to our achieve- 
ments and gave to the world a new conception of 
American character and spirit. It was not a war of 
conquest, but an unselfish struggle for humanity. Its 
result entailed upon us new and additional responsi- 
bilities whose consequences we are making no effort to 
avoid or evade. * * * 

For want of some more appropriate method of 
celebration, an International Exposition was adopted. 
It was not our first choice ; we were driven to the 
inevitable conclusion by a contemplation of the far- 
reaching results of the event we were to commemorate, 
and by a realization of the relation of our Republic 
to the powers of the world and of our relations to 
mankind, with whom we are proud to claim a universal 
brotherhood. * * * 

The spirit and object of the Exposition will be to 
show man in his highest development; the product of his 
best thought, the most beneficent and the most scientific 
processes of his handiwork will be much more interesting 
to the cultured mind and more elevating to the human 
race. Almost every Exposition has been the means, if 
not the occasion, of demonstrating the utility of inven- 
tions, which, while startling in their ingenuity and con- 
sidered only curious phenomena in their inception, have 

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become essentials in commerce and in the comforts of 
modern life. It is not necessary for me to remind you 
that within the period whose rounding out we are com- 
memorating, the application of steam as a motive 
power, the harvesting and the sewing machine, the 
harnessing of electricity as an incomparable agency — its 
numerous and inestimable uses — have been invented and 
have made the nineteenth century the most remarkable 
in the history of science and the advancement of civili- 
zation. We hope and confidently expect that the 
Universal Exposition of 1904 will mark the practical use 
of wireless telegraphy and demonstrate the feasibility of 
aerial navigation. We have offered $200,000, or ^40,000, 
in premiums for airships and dirigible balloons. * * * 
This country, as I have stated, has informed us 
through our State Department at Washington of its 
intention to take part in the Exposition by making an 
exhibit in Art and Education. That is not enough. We 
have a right to ask more of you, and we are confident 
you will give a favorable response to our appeal. It 
would be presumption on my part to suggest your duty 
to you or to demonstrate your interest. The first great 
International Exposition was held in this city half a 
century ago under the patronage of the Prince Consort, 
Albert — honor to his memory. England has been fully 
represented at every Universal Exposition since that date 
that was worthy of the name. You know what profit has 
resulted therefrom. We of the United States bear 
willing testimony to the benefits we have reaped from 
our participation in International Expositions beyond 
our borders, as well as from those held within the 
limits of our country. We admit that a Universal 
Exposition at which the resources of the British Empire, 
the handiwork of the English artisan, your applied 
mechanics and the products of English genius are not 
exhibited, would be incomplete. I feel some delicacy 

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in referring to consanguinity as a motive which should 
impel you to be active participants at a feast of which 
your kinsmen are the hosts. Nor would it be becoming 
in the President of this Universal Exposition to designate 
as the seat of honor the place at the table to be occupied 
by the mother country. You need no assurance, however, 
from the Exposition management, nor from the head of 
our Government, nor from the American people, to con- 
vince you that no guest will be more welcome, no one 
could honor us more, nor anyone be given precedence 
over you. We feel justified in predicting that the attend- 
ance at this Exposition will not only be universal from 
within the limits of our country, extensive and populous 
as it is, but that the citizens of every civilized country 
on the globe will visit us in representative numbers, 
attracted as they will be not only by the merit of the 
Exposition, but by a desire to see in their own abodes a 
people who, within the past half decade, have started out 
upon a new policy, taken up new problems and assumed 
new responsibilities ; a people whose example and influ- 
ence command and merit observance and study ; a people 
whose reputation for hospitality is whole-souled and 
proverbial. An exhibit of Art and Education will, it is 
true, demonstrate to the world the culture and the intel- 
lectual force of a country that produced a Shakespeare, 
a Bacon, a Newton, a Reynolds, a Turner, a Mills, a 
Darwin. But would you omit to honor or direct attention 
to what your sons have done in applied sciences, for the 
amelioration of the toilers, for the development of the 
earth's resources? You do not need to be told that of 
the millions who will visit the Exposition Grounds almost 
every one will ask to be shown the building of the 
country on whose possessions the sun never sets; will ask 
to be shown the trophies of a people whose marvelous 
prowess on land and on sea has for a thousand years 
merited admiration and commanded respect. 

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And then think of your interests on the western 
hemisphere. Canada, as I have stated, has already 
appointed her Commissioners and selected a site for her 
building. The location of this Exposition will be less 
than a thousand miles from British Columbia, whose 
resources are second to none and whose development is 
keeping pace with the foremost. Your own citizens 
furnished the capital and your own sons exercised the 
genius and braved the hardships to tunnel mountains, 
bridge rivers and construct transcontinental railways 
which will transport to this Exposition the products and 
the people of the Orient. The material benefits which 
that section and those interests will derive from this 
Exposition are worthy of consideration. 

But above all those material reasons, this Universal 
Exposition is worthy of your patronage and merits your 
participation because it is a contest of friendly rivalry, a 
triumph of peace. Every Universal Exposition is another 
step toward the disarmament of the world. The inven- 
tions which make easy communication between remote 
sections and bring closer together the peoples of distant 
climes, have served to prevent many a conflict at arms. 
The last clash between your forces and ours at New 
Orleans nearly a century ago was after the negotiation of 
peace had been concluded, and would never have taken 
place if Morse or Marconi had previously bestowed upon 
the world the priceless boon of their discoveries. 

A Universal Exposition is a jubilee of peace. It is a 
conference of all the nations. It prepares the way for 
the establishment of a universal and lasting peace. No 
more worthy object can engage the attention of a govern- 
ment or enlist the energies of a people. Dreams of 
empire are cherished from time to time, if not continu- 
ously, by the leading races of the earth. Standing 
armies are maintained for protection and for conquest. 
The ingenuity of man is exercised to design weapons of 

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warfare which his skill is taxed to fashion. Diplomacy 
is studied to enable us the more adroitly to practice 
deception. 

A Universal Exposition is an incomparable agency 
for promoting acquaintance among the peoples of different 
climes and varied nationalities. It fosters good feeling 
and generates mutual esteem. It is the coronation of 
civilization. It establishes new commercial relations. 
It affords unequalled opportunities for the interchange 
of ideas and experiences, and furnishes potential aid to 
the solution of the intricate and trying problems that 
beset the strongest governments. It strengthens existing 
alliances and paves the way for the formation of more 
comprehensive and lasting understandings. It is a par- 
liament of man. It is the most general function of 
society. It broadens the sympathies of the strong; it 
increases the confidence and self-respect of the weak. 
Without lessening our affection for the institutions of 
our own country, it imbues us with a considerate regard 
for those of others. It is of inestimable assistance in 
removing and preventing misunderstandings, and in 
establishing between nations that equilibrium which is 
essential to the preservation of peace. It is worthy of 
the world's best work, of man's highest thought. 

The Louisiana Purchase Exposition of 1904 will be 
universal in the broadest sense. It will not be charac- 
terized by an effort at self-aggrandizement on the part of 
the people of the American Republic. Its location in the 
heart and almost the geographical center of the North 
American continent will not only afford a convenient 
meeting place for all the peoples of the Western Hemi- 
sphere, but it is a half-way house on the western road 
from Europe to the Orient and on the eastern road from 
the Orient to Europe. The countries of the East, which 
for the past few years seem to have been a magnet that 
has attracted the attention of Europe as well as America, 

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have announced in earnest expressions their determina- 
tion to participate in this Exposition to an extent sur- 
passing all past experiences. Will the English people 
fail or hesitate to take their proper place in this convo- 
cation of the nations of the earth? We trust not. Aye, 
we know not. The influence which the men seated 
around this board can exert upon that public opinion 
which has ever been the safeguard of your institutions 
and the guide and promoter of your progress, will surely 
prompt such action as will result in a full acceptance of 
the invitation to participate in the Universal Exposition 
to be held in 1904. 



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SEATING ARRANGEMENT, PARIS BREAKFAST, MARCH 7th. 1903. 

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RESPONSE 

At Breakfast Given by American Chamber of 

Commerce and the French Exhibitors at 

Hotel Continental, Paris, 

March 7th, 1903. 



Monsieur lk Ministre, 
Messieurs, 

Le chaleureux accueil que vous me faites, ainsi que la 
haute situation des personnages que je vois autour de cette 
table, sont autant de compliments flatteurs pour 1' Exposition 
Universelle de mil neuf cent quatre, dont je suis le repre- 
sentant. J'apprecie d'autant plus cethonneurqu'il m'indique 
d'une facon precise le vif interet que la nation francaise porte 
a cette exposition; cet interet n'est pas seulement un etoge 
pour les personnages qui ont su la provoquer, mais il est 
encore la garantie du succes de leurs efforts. L,a France est 
le pays des expositions, et le groupernent des meilleurs pro- 
duits du monde entier ne saurait etre complet si le talent et le 
genie francais ne s'y trouvaient representes. Aucune nation 
plus que la France n'est au courant du travail et des respon- 
sabilites qu'entrainent avec elles une Exposition Universelle. 
II faut declarer que ses nombreuses expositions anterieures lui 
ont attire l'admiration du monde entier. Non seulement vos 
expositions reunissent toujours les chefs-d'oeuvre des expo- 
sants, mais elles attirent des centaines de mille de visiteurs 
inteliigents, aussion peut dire que les expositions de Paris ont 
marque chaque fois pour les arts et les sciences une etape dans 
les progres de la civilisation. 

Vous nous permettrez, nous en avons la conviction, de 
considerer l'empressement avec lequel vous avez accepte de 
participer a notre exposition, dont le but est de commemorer 
un fait important dans l'histoire de notre pays, corame Vindi- 
cation des bons sentiments que la premiere Republique du 

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Vieux Monde eprouve pour la Republique de Washington, de 
Jefferson, de Madison, de Lincoln et de tous ces presidents 
qui ont occupe les plus hautes situations que pouvait leur 
confier le peuple americain. 

Les benefices commerciaux que les Francais peuvent 
attendre de l'Exposition de Saint Louis sont au-dela de tout 
ce que vous pouvez conceyoir. Saint Louis est situe en plein 
centre de la zone productive des Etats-Unis. La region 
tributaire de cette ville est felativement nouvelle et son deve- 
loppement n'est pas encore acheye. Son sol est fertile, son 
climat salubre, ses ressources inestimables.- Sa fortune et sa 
population se sont accrues avec une rapidite toujours crois- 
sante durant ces trente dernieres annees. ; 

Notre peuple, jusqu'alors, avait toujours ete trop occupe 
a combattre les Indiens, ainsi qu'a. etendre les limites de ses 
frontieres pour pouvoir consacrer son temps a cultiver les arts 
et a etudier le beau. Maintenant que les frontieres sont abo- 
lies, et que 1' Europe ainsi que tous les etats du Nouveau- 
Monde ont recours aux produits de nos champs, de nos forets 
et de nos mines, maintenant que les voies ferrees traversent a 
peu pres toutes les provinces du Mississipi au Pacifique, les 
habitants de notre pays ressentent le desir de s'initier au con- 
fortable et au luxe de la vie. II est done impossible de trouver 
un meilleur marche que les Etats-Unis pour les produits de 
vos artistes et de vos industriels. Rien ne peut donner une 
idee exacte de la hauteur de vues d'un peuple comme son desir 
de voir exposer chez lui ce que l'esprit humain a pu concevoir 
de mieux et ce que la main de l'homme a pu executer de plus 
artistique. Aussi quand on voit un peuple resolu a supporter 
les depenses d'une telle exposition et a faire tous les sacri- 
fices qu'elle entraine, on peut etre assure que ce peuple a 
l'idee bien arretee de ne pas rester au second rang dans la voie 
du progres et de la civilisation. 

Tandis que votre civilisation plus agee que la notre a fait 
dans les arts des progres auxquels nous ne pouvons encore 
atteindre ; avec modestie et cependant avec un orgueil bien 
comprehensible, nous pouvons indiquer les progres que nous 
avons faits dans les sciences qui reVelent et enseignent les 
moyens d'utiliser les forces et les ressources de la nature, les 

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sciences qui donnent a la vie de I'homme une conception plus 
grande et plus elevee, en meme temps qu'elles la rendent plus 
heureuse. 

Nous sommes un peuple commercial, comme vous nous 
appelez en Europe. Les plus grandes fortunes, ainsi que les 
positions les plus elevees, sont chez nous a la portee du jeune 
homme le plus pauvre. Arriver a l'independance est une 
ambition vraiment louable, de la part d'un citoyen ou d'une 
nation. Cela n'empeche pas les hommes de notre pays qui 
accumulent des fortunes avec une rapidite remarquable, de 
montrer toujours un bon jugement dans leur emploi. Rare- 
ment ils se retirent de la scene du travail, mais au contraire 
ils consacrent leur fortune au developpement de ressources 
inconnues, a la construction d'universites pour 1 'instruction 
et l'education des enfants. Dans le meme ordre d'idees, nous 
avons pense que c'etait faire un bon usage de notre fortune 
que d'en consacrer une partie aune Exposition Universelle. 

Vous autres Francais vous n'avez pas besoin que Ton 
vous dise les avantages immenses d'une Exposition Universelle, 
combien elle eleve et elargit les idees du peuple chez qui elle 
se fait et des hommes qui la visitent. Elle donne l'occasion a 
des peuples habitant des climats differents mais qui ont des 
interets communs, de se rapprocher. Elle etablit de nouvelles 
lignes de commerce pour le profit de tous, elle aide a la for- 
mation de relations internationales nouvelles et cimente plus 
etroitement celles existant deja. Une Exposition Universelle 
est un promoteur de paix. C'est le couronnement de la 
civilisation. 

L' Exposition de Saint Louis en mil neuf cent quatre sera 
certainement la plus universelle qui ait encore existe. Le 
gouvernement des Etats-Unis qui a vote pour l'Exposition 
cinq millions de dollars, soit vingt cinq millions de francs (en 
outre des cinquante millions de francs fournis par la Ville de 
Saint Louis et ses habitants) a, de plus, consacre une somme 
de un million trois cent mille dollars, soit six millions cinq 
cent mille francs, pour sa propre participation, et a etendu ses 
invitations a toutes les nations du monde. 

Le gouvernement americain est convaincu qu'il figurera 
a cette Exposition plus de races et de nations qu'a aucune 

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exposition anterieure. Tous les pays et tous les Gouverne- 
ments de 1' hemisphere occidental ont accepte les invitations 
qui leur ont ete adressees. Les quarante cinq etatsetles trois 
territoires de 1 'union americaine, comme aussi toutes les 
possessions d' outre -mer de notre pays seront represented a. 
l'Exposition par un batiment distinct et par une exhibition 
caracteristique de leurs produits. 

L' Orient nous a donne des reponses satisfaisantes. Le 
Japon, dont les commissaires faisaient choix d'un emplacement 
au moment ou j'ai quitte Saint Louis pour venir en Europe, 
annongait que son Exposition surpasserait toutes celles qu'il 
a faites jusqu'ici. La Chine, la Coree et Ceylan ont mani- 
feste l'intention d'elever des batiments. 

La superficie des terrains de l'Exposition est d'environ 
cinq cents hectares, c'est a. dire quatre fois l'espace couvert 
par votre Exposition de dix neuf cents. L'Exposition est 
situee dans une foret naturelle dont les arbres ombrageront les 
divers batiments de nos etats, de nos territoires et de nos 
possessions insulaires, de meme que le Palais du Gouverne- 
ment auquel on va consacrer une somme de deux millions deux 
cent cinquante mille francs. Cette foret qui encadrera l'Expo- 
sition ne sera pas alteree et les travaux d'art qu'on y elevera 
ne pourront qu'embellir ses attraits naturels. 

Les palais de l'Exposition dont les toitures abriteront plus 
de cinquante hectares borderont un canal large de vingt cinq 
metres alimente par les eaux d'une cascade aux nots tombant 
d'une hauteur de vingt-deux metres dans une piece d'eau 
large de deux cents metres, tels un Niagara artificiel, une 
Venise en miniature. 

Des talents indiscutes embellissent actuellement terrains 
et batiments. 

Le Palais des Beaux -Arts sera en matiere refractaire et 
restera apres l'Exposition. Les ceuvres d'art qui nous vien- 
dront de tous les points de l'Univers seront done en pleine 
securite dans ce Palais. 

Nous n'oublions pas et nous sommes sensiblesau fait que 
votre Gouvernement a ete le premier a. choisir sur nos terrains 
un emplacement pour son pavilion national, et qu'il nous a le 

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premier soumis les plans d'un monument qui est l'un des 
chefs-d'oeuvre de 1' architecture francaise. 

Votre aimable Commissaire General, M. Michel Lagrave, 
est venu a Saint Louis et y a deploye une activite a laquelle 
nous tenons a rendre hommage ; le site incomparable qu'il a 
choisi pour l'elevation de votre pavilion national est une nou- 
velle preuve de son experience en matiere d'exposition et de 
son excellent jugement. Le grand nombre d'exposants ici 
presents demontrerait, si ce n'etait deja demontre, que la 
methode qu'emploie M. Michel Lagrave pour interesser les 
industries et les exposants de France est des plus heureuses et 
produira des effets certains. Je suis sur que sous son ener- 
gique direction la France ne saurait manquer d'etre fiere de sa 
participation a l'Exposition de Saint Louis. 

Un mot encore avaut de terminer; votre cordiale hos- 
pitalite, votre accueil amical, seront non seulement apprecies 
par mes compatriotes a Saint Louis, mais encore les rendront 
comme moi plus desireux de voir les citoyens de France 
visiter en grand nombre notre Exposition. De Paris a Saint 
Louis la route n'est pas longue; Saint Louis est au sein des 
Etats-Unis et trone sur les rives du Mississipi, (le pere des 
eaux). La duree du trajet de New York a Saint Louis n'est 
que de vingt-quatre heures, par un train d'un confort incom- 
parable; de Baltimore, de la Nouvelle Orleans, de Charleston 
ou de Savana, seize heures dechemin defer conduisent a Saint 
Louis. Ce voyage vous permettra de visiter la plus grande 
Exposition que nous ayons faite, une Exposition qui vous 
donnera un apercu de notre pays. En parcourant par deux fois 
en quatrevingt- seize heures la distance de Paris aux Pyrenees, 
j'ai ete profondement frappe de la facon dont votre beau sol 
de France est cultive. II est impossible de se figurer les 
resultats qu'un pareil labeur produirait dans les vastes plaines 
et les fertiles vallees qui s'etendent des Monts Alleghanys aux 
Montagnes Rocheuses. 

Je n'ai pas ici pour but de vous precher l'oubli de votre 

sol natal que vous aimez , je sais trop votre attachement a 

votre pays. Nos statistiques de l'immigration nous montrent 

peremptoirement combien rares sont ceux qui abandonnent 

' la Belle France " et la prodigieuse vitalite de votre nation 

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est due, a u'en pas douter, a l'industrie et a la frugalite de ses 
habitants, que domine un souffle imperissable de patriotisme. 
Les citoyens animes d'un tel esprit sont l'orgueil d'un pays et 
le secret de son eternite ; basee sur de tels prineipes, la Repub - 
lique Francaise est inebranlable. Nous serons heureux d'avoir 
beaucoup de francais comme notes et nous esperons que vos 
produits et votre Exposition ne seront pas seuls a representer 
la France a Saint Louis en dix-neuf cent quatre, que vous- 
memes viendrez nombreux a cette grande manifestation 
internationale. 



(Translation from the French, in which it was delivered.) 

Mr. Minister and Gentlemen: 

The warmth of this reception, as well as the 
representative character of those seated around this 
board, is a compliment to the Universal Exposition of 
1904, whose representative I am. It is an honor the 
more appreciated, because, to my mind, it indicates an 
interest on the part of the French people in that 
Exposition, which is not only highly gratifying to the 
management, but a guarantee of the success of their 
efforts. France is the country of Expositions, and no 
assembling of the best products of the age can be 
complete without a representation of French skill and 
French genius. No country is so well advised as France 
as to the labor involved and the responsibility connected 
with a Universal Exposition. Your experience in that 
line must have been satisfactory to yourselves or it would 
not have been continued from decade to decade. It 
certainly has commanded the admiration of the world. 
Your expositions not only attract exhibits of man's best 
handiwork, but draw hundreds of thousands of intelligent 
visitors. Every Universal Exposition held in Paris has 
been a marker for advancement in high art and in the 
applied sciences, if not a milestone in the progress of 
civilization. 

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Your prompt acceptance of the invitation to partici- 
pate in the Universal Exposition of 1904, held to 
commemorate an important event in the history of our 
country, we trust you will permit us to construe as an 
indication of the good-will of the leading Republic of 
the Old World for the Republic of Washington, of 
Jefferson, of Madison, of Lincoln, and of all those 
patriotic Presidents who have held the highest place 
within the gift of the American people. 

The commercial benefits to be derived by your 
people from exhibiting at the St. Louis Exposition are 
beyond your conception. St. Louis is situated in the 
very heart of the productive section of the United 
States. The country tributary to that city is com- 
paratively new and undeveloped. Its soil is fertile, its 
climate salubrious and its resources inestimable. It 
has grown rapidly in wealth and population during the 
past thirty years, and is now being settled at a more 
rapid rate than any section of the United States, if not 
of the earth. Our people have been too much occupied 
fighting the Indians and the buffaloes, and in advancing 
the frontier, to devote much time to the patronage of art 
or the cultivation of the beautiful. Now that the Indians 
are educated in the pursuits of civilization, that the 
frontier is abolished, and that Europe, as well as other 
sections of our own country, is taking the products of 
our fields, forests and mines, and railroads permeate 
almost every province between the Mississippi and the 
Pacific, the people are inspired by a desire to indulge in 
the comforts and luxuries of life. No better market for 
the products of your artists and your artisans can be 
conceived than that furnished by the United States ; no 
surer evidence of breadth of view of a people or a 
community can be produced than their desire to have 
exhibited in their midst the best and highest that the 
mind of man hath conceived or his hand hath wrought. 

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And when they are willing to provide the immense cost 
of such an exhibition, to endure the sacrifices that it 
entails, that should be proof conclusive of their deter- 
mination to take no second rank, and of their ability to 
keep abreast of the foremost. 

While your older civilization has made advances in 
art to which ours cannot approach, we can, with be- 
coming modesty and justifiable pride, lay claim to the 
progress we have made in the sciences that work for the 
revelation and utilization of the forces and resources of 
nature, the sciences that go toward lightening the labor 
of man and making his life broader and higher and 
happier. 

We are a commercial people, as you of Europe 
choose to designate us. In America every man works. 
The greatest fortunes, as well as the highest places, are 
within the reach of the poorest boy. The attainment of 
an independence is a worthy ambition on the part of an 
individual as well as of a nation; but, like the citizens 
of this Republic, the people of America hold their 
wealth and their commerce as of small account when 
compared with the love and pride of their country. The 
men in our country who are accumulating wealth at so 
marvelous a rate manifest remarkably good judgment in 
its use. Seldom do they retire from the scene of action. 
Rather do they use their accumulations for the develop- 
ment of unknown resources, for the erection of monu- 
ments, for the founding and endowment of eleemosynary 
and educational institutions. 

No better use of wealth can be made than the fos- 
tering of an Universal Exposition. You of France do 
not need to be told of the great educational advantages 
offered by such an enterprise ; of how it elevates the 
tastes and broadens the ideas of the section in which it 
is held and of the people who visit it, nor of the incen- 
tive it offers to genius, the reward to invention. It 

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furnishes the occasion to bring into closer relationship 
peoples who, although inhabiting different climes, 
possess mutual interests. It establishes new lines of 
commerce to the common benefit of all. It conduces to 
the formation of new international relations and to 
the cementing of those already existing. The Univer- 
sal Exposition is a promotor of peace. It is, as I said 
in London, the coronation of civilization. The St. 
Louis Exposition of 1904 promises to be as universal in 
character as any ever held. The Government of the 
United States, which has appropriated $5,000,000, or 
25,000,000 francs (besides the 50,000,000 francs fur- 
nished by the city and the people of St. Louis) in aid of 
this Exposition, and also $1,300,000, or 6,500,000 francs, 
for its own exhibits, has extended invitations to all nations 
to participate. The Government, as well as the Exposi- 
tion management itself, feels justified in expecting that 
more countries and more races will take part in this than 
in any Exposition ever held. Every country and every 
government on the Western Hemisphere has accepted the 
invitation extended to it. Everyone of the forty-five 
States and three Territories of the American Union, as 
well as every outlying possession of our country, will be 
distinctively represented at the Exposition by a separate 
building and by an exhibit of its characteristic products. 

The responses from the Orient have been gratifying 
to a degree. Japan, whose Commissioners were in 
St. Louis selecting a site and making application for 
space in our exhibit palaces when I started for Europe, 
announced that their exhibit at St. Louis will surpass 
any that country has ever made. China and Korea and 
Siam and Ceylon have announced their intention of 
erecting buildings. 

The area of our Exposition Grounds is 1,180 acres 
— nearly four times that of your Exposition in 1900. 
The site is a natural forest under whose shades will be 

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erected the separate buildings of our States and Terri- 
tories and island possessions, and also the exhibit 
building of the General Government, for which alone 
$450,000, or 2,250,000 francs, has been appropriated. 
This forest will not be destroyed nor its beauty impaired ; 
rather will its natural attractions be enhanced by the aid 
of art. 

The exhibit palaces whose ground area under roof 
will exceed 180 acres, are located on the banks of a 
canal seventy-five feet in width, whose waters flow from 
a basin 600 feet wide, into which they have fallen from 
a height of seventy feet — an artificial Niagara, a 
Venice in miniature. 

The highest talent in sculpture and mural painting 
is now employed in designing embellishments for the 
grounds and buildings. 

The Art Hall will be a fire-proof structure and will 
remain as a monument to the energy and patriotism of 
those who originated this great undertaking, and which, 
with your aid, will be carried to a successful consumma- 
tion. It will also serve as a safe receptacle for the art 
treasures that will be gathered at St. Louis from all 
parts of the world. 

We are not unmindful nor inappreciative of the fact 
that yours was the first European Government to select 
a site upon our grounds for a national building, and to 
submit plans for a structure which is not only charac- 
teristic of your country, but is known everywhere as a 
structure of rare architectural merit and unsurpassed 
beauty of outline. Your able and efficient Commissioner- 
General, M. Michel Lagrave, has visited St. Louis, and 
the very eligible and incomparable site selected for 
your building is evidence of his experience in Exposition 
work and another manifestation of his excellent judg- 
ment. The attendance on this occasion of the repre- 
sentative exhibitors of France is proof, if any were 

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required, that his methods for interesting the industries 
and exhibitors of the Republic are wise and effective. 
I am confident that under his energetic leadership France 
will have no occasion to feel other than proud of her 
exhibit at St. Louis in 1904. 

One word more and I shall have finished. The 
hospitality I have enjoyed, the earnest welcome extended 
to me, will not only be appreciated by my colleagues in 
St. Louis, as I have assured you, but will make them 
the more desirous, as it has me, that the people of this 
country visit the Exposition in large and representative 
numbers. It is no farther from Paris to St. Louis 
than from St. Louis to Paris. St. Louis is not on 
the Atlantic seaboard, but in the heart of the country 
and on the banks of the great Mississippi, the "Father of 
Waters." It is but twenty-four hours in an unequalled 
train de luxe from New York, and but twenty hours from 
Baltimore or New Orleans or Charleston or Savannah. 
The journey is not tiresome, and by making it you will 
be enabled to see the greatest exhibit we can make, 
which is the country itself. 

In traveling between Paris and the Pyrenees, as I 
have twice during the past ninety-six hours, I have been 
deeply impressed with the industry and thrift of those 
who till the soil in that beautiful country. It is beyond 
comprehension to estimate what such painstaking appli- 
cation would produce on the broad plains and fertile 
valleys lying between the Alleghenies and the Rocky 
Mountains. I am not here to endeavor to persuade your 
patriotic people to forsake the land of their nativity and of 
their love — I know too well their devotion to France. 
The immigration statistics of our country show conclu- 
sively how few of your people have quit La Belle France, 
and the unequalled recuperative powers of this nation 
unquestionably demonstrate that your unsurpassed 
strength is due to the industry and frugality of your 

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people, indissolubly linked with a lofty and unchanging 
patriotism. Such citizenship is the pride of a country 
and the secret of its perpetuity. Based upon such a foun- 
dation the stability of the French Republic is assured. 
Such a people we shall be pleased to entertain as our 
guests. We trust that not only your exhibits at our 
Exposition will be general and representative, but that 
the citizens of this Republic will be in attendance in 
large numbers at St. L,ouis in 1904. 



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RESPONSE 

At Luncheon given by Imperial German Com- 
missioner-General Lewald, Berlin, 
March 9th, 1903. 



Mr. Chairman, Your Excellency and Gentlemen: 

I exceedingly regret that I cannot pay to you the 
compliment which you have tendered me, by expressing 
my sentiments in your language as you have expressed 
yours in mine. Suffice it to say that when I come to 
Berlin again I shall endeavor to address you in your own 
tongue. Permit me, however, to express my gratitude 
for this very distinguished compliment you have paid 
me, and to say as nearly as I can say in words how 
highly I appreciate the reception I have met with in the 
capital of the German Empire. 

The audience with which I was honored by His 
Majesty, your Emperor, to-day, will be remembered by 
me as long as I live, and I shall carry to my people a 
most gratifying report of the very kindly sentiments 
which he expressed toward the American Republic. His 
prompt acceptance of our invitation to this country to 
participate in the International Exposition to be held in 
the United States next year, was highly appreciated not 
only by the management of the Exposition, but by the 
government at Washington and by the people throughout 
the entire United States. 

If there had been any doubt in the minds of the 
people of Germany as to the fitness and the equipment 
of your Commissioner-General to properly represent you at 
that Exposition, it would have been removed if you could 

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have accompanied him to St. Louis and have seen the 
ability with which he assumed the duties devolving upon 
him. When he presented his credentials to the manage- 
ment at St. Louis and heard our statements and saw our 
plans he seemed immediately to grasp the scope of the 
Exposition, and we knew that we had to deal with a man 
who understood his responsibilities. He said: "When 
I go home and report to my Emperor the plan and scope 
of this Exposition, he will admire the magnitude of your 
undertaking, and his comment will be that to so great 
an Exposition I should have sent a more representative 
man." If anything had been required to demonstrate 
to us the eminent fitness of your Imperial Commissioner- 
General, that statement on his part would have been 
sufficient. 

But that is not all. We told him that we had allotted 
to the German Empire what we thought a most eligible 
site for the German building. With characteristic polite- 
ness he said, " I thank you," but immediately journeyed 
over the grounds. After an inspection continuing 
through forty-eight hours he returned to the office of the 
Director of Works and said: " I don't like the site you 
have assigned me; I prefer another site." The site he 
had selected was in his judgment the most desirable one 
within the limits of the Exposition Grounds. The 
Director of Works remonstrated with your Imperial 
Commissioner-General, but to no effect. He appealed 
to the President. But before he formally did so he gave 
ample evidence of his diplomacy, because I had, previous 
to his appeal, been approached by no less than twenty 
representative citizens of St. Louis and members of 
our Board of Directors, who urged upon me to comply 
with the request of your Commissioner-General. What 
was there for me to do ? What could the President do 
other than yield to that request ? The result was that 
probably the most conspicuous site within the limits of 

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our twelve hundred acres was chosen by Doctor Lewald 
as the site of the German building, and upon that location 
will be erected a structure characteristic of this great 
Empire. That building, I trust, will be the receptacle 
of many of the relics to which the German nation is so 
devotedly attached, and it will be the meeting place not 
only of the millions of Americans of German descent 
who will visit the Exposition Grounds, but also the 
meeting place of many citizens of Germany who will 
favor us with their presence in 1904. 

We hope that occasion will also be graced by many 
representatives of the German Government, and cherish 
the expectation that we shall be honored by the presence 
of a member of the royal family. If so, we shall feel 
complimented indeed. 

And since having had the honor to-day of an audience 
with your Emperor, I cannot but repeat what I said to 
him. That was: "Your Majesty, if you could possibly 
come to America such a welcome would be extended to 
you as you never have met with, except possibly within 
the limits of your own Empire." 

Gentlemen, I thank you, and trust that if we do 
not meet again before 1904, I shall have the honor of 
welcoming to the St. L,ouis Exposition certainly every 
gentleman of this distinguished company. 



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RESPONSE 

At Dinner of Missouri Society in New York, 
at Waldorf-Astoria, March 19th, 1903. 



Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen: 

This very distinguished compliment tendered by the 
Missouri Society in New York is appreciated none the 
less because I was not aware that it was contemplated 
until two days ago. I return my grateful acknowledg- 
ments. 

The short and hurried tour through Europe, from 
which I have just returned, was determined upon under 
circumstances which did not admit of much deliberation , 
and begun immediately thereafter. It occupied an 
absence of thirty-three days from our own shores, fourteen 
of which were spent upon the ocean, nine in England 
and ten on the continent. During that period I was 
honored by audiences with the rulers of five of the 
leading nations of Europe, and by interviews with many 
of the officials of their governments, and had the pleasure 
of meeting in each country many other men of affairs 
who establish industries, build up commerce, foster and 
promote art and education. 

Reception Abroad. 

The unusual consideration shown me could not 
have been secured without the earnest co-operation and 
the discreet aid of the United States Ambassadors and 
Ministers in the European capitals which I visited, and 
it goes without saying that the extraordinary courtesies 
extended were not to myself personally, nor wholly to 
the president of the Universal Exposition to be held in 

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St. Louis in 1904, but materially to the government of 
the United States, from which had been received invita- 
tions to participate in that Exposition, and to the 
American people, for whom the president of that 
Exposition was looked upon as standing in some 
degree, however mistaken' that view may have been. 

European Estimate of America. 

Great is the admiration throughout Europe for the 
genius and enterprise and methods of those who within 
the period of a century and a quarter have, in what was 
a comparative wilderness, established a form of govern- 
ment at variance with, yes, in direct opposition to, the 
monarchial and class institutions which have been tested 
and fortified by centuries of usage; for a people who, 
while fighting savages, advancing their frontier and 
waging sanguinary internecine and foreign wars, and 
while admitting to their shores hundreds of thousands of 
immigrants differing in race and instinct, have been able 
to weld these incongruous elements into a harmonious 
whole, which has taken rank with the foremost nations 
of the world in every line of commerce and of industry, 
and in the arts of war as well as in the pursuits 
of peace. 

Let us not, however, be misled by such expressions. 
While grateful for such sentiments we should not be 
flattered into the belief that those who entertain them 
will continue to do so unless we continue to merit them. 
The people of England have for many years demonstrated 
their ability to keep abreast of the foremost in every 
line of human endeavor; the people of Germany and 
of France and of Belgium are ever alert and active 
in the applied sciences as well as in art, and their 
commerce, while not showing a growth equal to that of 
ours, has manifested no diminution as the years have 
.gone by. 

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Example of Europe. 

Of course no one will claim that we cannot learn 
much of Europe. There are many things in which we 
would do well to follow the example of the Old World. 
In some problems the people of Europe have made more 
progress toward solution than we have in America. The 
first, if not the most important step an individual or a 
people can take toward advancement or elevation, is the 
adoption of that breadth of view which acknowledges 
that better methods than those in use by themselves are 
practised by others. One of the most progressive rulers 
of the world told me not only without hesitation but with 
evident pride, that there were many lines in which Amer- 
ican methods were superior to all others, and that 
therein he did not hesitate to imitate us. It needs no 
argument to convince a thoughtful observer that he will 
make every effort to improve upon those methods. 
Europe may be an armed camp, as it is often called, but 
in such surroundings he is indeed a wise ruler who adopts 
and fosters agencies of commerce which in time of peril 
of the nation can be converted into potential and effective 
implements of war for defense or aggression. The fore- 
sight and wise precaution of a government so conducted 
not only commands the respect of other governments, 
but receives and deserves the admiration and the loyalty 
of its own citizens. The belief in the divine right of 
kings has ceased to be the foundation of monarchical 
institutions. The thrones of the leading kingdoms and 
empires are no longer based upon the ignorance of their 
subjects, but are hedged about by the ability and the 
willingness of the governing power to promote the 
interests of those whose trust they hold, and all wise 
administrations realize that the most efficient aid to their 
efforts is the intelligence, the self-respect and the 
patriotism of the citizens. 

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Motives of Foreign Participation. 

The Universal Exposition which is being planned 
by the people of St. Louis under the patronage of the 
Federal Government is not a commercial enterprise, nor 
have its projectors ever felt that the community and the 
municipality which have provided ten millions of dollars 
for its inauguration would ever realize in return a 
respectable percentage or anything at all on their liberal 
outlay. This conviction is also entertained by the 
Federal Government and by the States of the Union who 
have so generously come to the support of the enterprise. 
The movement was originated, has been carried to its 
present stage, and will be pushed to a successful con- 
summation through a patriotic desire and a commendable 
sense of propriety or duty to commemorate a great event 
in the history of the country. The participation of the 
countries of Europe in that Universal Exposition has 
acquired during the recent past a gratifying impetus. 
That action was due in great part to the good-will cher- 
ished by those countries for the American people and a 
desire to still more closely cement the friendly relations 
now existing. The people of the United States and the 
government which administers their affairs, as well as 
the Exposition management itself, appreciate and accept 
with gratitude the participation promised, and will wel- 
come with a friendly hospitality the citizens of other 
countries who will visit that Exposition. The very 
acceptance of the invitations extended and the participa- 
tion of the countries that will make exhibits are in them- 
selves evidences not only of the good-will which we 
reciprocate, but signify on the part of those countries 
pride in their products and processes, and an admirable 
desire and intention to learn the best that civilization 
can exhibit and to profit thereby. 



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Duty of New York. 

If, as has been said, the publicity of the Exposi- 
tion has been extended and its success accelerated by 
the tour upon the return from which you have extended 
to me this flattering reception, it is gratifying to the 
management of the Exposition, to the city of St. 
Louis, and to all sections that cherish a proprietary 
interest in that national undertaking. There is, how- 
ever, no section of the United States, nor of the world, 
that can contribute more toward the full fruition of the 
efforts for the accomplishment of this national enter- 
prise than the Empire State of New York and this 
metropolis of the Western Hemisphere. If the labor 
abroad performed by the President and the other repre- 
sentatives of the Exposition and this gathering and this 
well planned and admirably executed function of the 
adopted sons of New York from Missouri will have the 
effect of enlisting the earnest sympathy and the active 
co-operation of this city and this State, then indeed will 
the people of the West feel that their brethren on the 
Atlantic seaboard reciprocate the sentiments cherished 
by every section for a cosmopolitan community whose 
wealth and progress and culture have been contributed 
to by every State in the Union. New York City belongs 
to the entire country. It is the port of entry of the 
nation's guests as well as its commerce. The reception 
of the stranger when landing upon our shores makes a 
lasting impression and influences materially his opinion 
of the country itself and his estimate of those who 
inhabit the land. It has been well said that the best 
exhibit this country can make is the country itself. The 
Universal Exposition of 1904 will belong to New York 
as well as to St. Louis. I am satisfied that you sons 
of Missouri and the Louisiana Territory who have taken 
rip your abode in this first city of our country will show 

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no abatement of zeal, and let us hope that the enthusi- 
asm which now characterizes your work may not only 
increase from month to month until the opening and 
close of the Exposition, but will engender a like interest 
in the hearts of all the men and women of Greater New 
York. 



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Resolutions Adopted by St. Louis Merchants 
Exchange, March 23d, 1903. 



Whereas, The Hon. David R. Francis, President of the Louisi- 
ana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, has completed for the Exposition 
a most successful mission to Europe, in which he aroused the enthusi- 
astic interest of Europeans in the Exposition, secured promises of 
adequate exhibits from England, France, Germany, Spain and Belgium, 
and beneficially advertised St. Louis and the World's Fair throughout 
the civilized world; therefore, be it 

Resolved, That as citizens of St. Louis assembled in public meet- 
ing at the Merchants Exchange this 23d day of March, 1903, we tender 
President Francis this sincere expression of our appreciation of his 
valuable public service to the city and to the World's Fair, and our 
esteem for him as a man and a citizen whose admirable personal quali- 
ties and public services reflect credit upon the manhood and citizenship 
of St. Louis. 

Resolved, That these resolutions be engrossed on parchment, 
and sent to the Hon. David R. Francis, and a copy be sent to the 
Secretary of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company, with a 
request that it be spread upon the records of the company. 



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RESPONSE 

At Reception Given at Merchants' Exchange 
on Return from European Tour, 
March 23d, 1903. 



This assemblage and this demonstration are to me 
more inspiring than the courts of Europe or all the pomp 
and ceremony of monarchial institutions. I cannot find 
words in which to give expression to the sensations 
aroused by your enthusiastic manifestations of good-will 
and the very flattering honor with which you receive me. 

St. Louis has been the home of my adoption through 
the years of my youth and manhood. I have seen it 
grow from a city of 250,000 to a cosmopolitan community 
of 750,000 souls. As school boy, as college graduate, 
as clerk on the levee in the memorable days of river 
commerce, as a young member of this Exchange, as its 
president, as mayor of this City, as governor of this 
Commonwealth, as a member of the President's Cabinet 
and as president of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, I 
have through more than thirty -five years been familiar 
with the growth and development of St. Louis, and 
have endeavored to keep in touch with the impulses 
and convictions that shape and guide the sentiments 
and methods of its people. During that period my 
attachment for the city and my affection and respect for 
its people have broadened and deepened from year to 
year. Already you have conferred upon me greater 
honors and more distinction than I have merited or 
expected. 

The labors I have undertaken in connection with 
the Exposition have been assumed through a sense of 

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obligation to this community, which a lifetime of effort 
on my part cannot adequately discharge. Here was 
reared the partner of my life, and here were assumed 
our vows, "for better, for worse. 1 ' Here my children 
were born, and here my dead are buried. This has been 
the scene of all my struggles, of my defeats, and of 
whatever success may have fallen to my lot. I value 
above all earthly possessions the good opinion of the 
just and generous people of dear old St. Louis. I can 
only say to this sea of upturned faces, almost every one 
of which is indelibly impressed upon my memory, and 
whose expressions I have watched with such care and 
solicitude in the past, that I thank you from the bottom 
of my heart for a demonstration which my efforts to 
prevent seem only to have made the more earnest, for an 
ovation which I shall ever hold in grateful remembrance, 
however violent may be your reversion of feeling, 
however severe your frowns for my shortcomings in the 
future. 

The European tour, from which I have just returned, 
and which occupied a period of less than five weeks 
from the shores of our country and but a little more 
than five weeks from the limits of St. Louis, was under- 
taken with great reluctance and with many misgivings 
as to its outcome. After leaving this city on February 
10th, I never saw a St. Louis paper of later date than 
February 21st, the date of my landing on the coast of 
France, until I arrived in New York on Tuesday last. 
The tour, as you know, was made in the interest of the 
Universal Exposition, to be held in this city in 1904, in 
commemoration of the Louisiana Purchase. What seems 
to have been the effect of the tour on the interests of the 
Exposition in St. Louis and throughout the United 
States, has been as surprising as it has been gratifying. 
Never in its history has this city assumed such responsi- 
bility as now confronts it. International occurrences of 

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the past few years, international relations of the past few 
months, the aggressively progressive trend of American 
industry and American commerce, seem to have conspired 
to focus upon this city and the enterprise it has under- 
taken the attention of the strongest governments and 
the leading minds of the civilized world. The willing- 
ness of foreign countries to take part in what I desig- 
nated in Europe as "a coronation of civilization," has 
been to many sections of our country — hitherto lukewarm 
or indifferent — an awakening to the ambitious scope of 
our undertaking and the invaluable advantages to the 
entire country with which it is fraught. 

St. Iyouis will prove equal to the responsibility. 
The conservatism of its people is well known, and the 
stability engendered thereby has commanded general 
comment and deserved commendation. But when this 
community becomes imbued with a sense of its duty it 
does not stop to count the cost. It moves forward with 
the same impelling force as a moral idea when it takes 
root in the minds and hearts of an intelligent people. 
Its forward movement is as that of an avalanche. Woe 
to him who stands in its way or attempts to impede its 
progress. Such convictions generate revolutions. 

So in a manner is it with the people of this city. 
For forty years or more this has been the commercial 
metropolis of the great empire whose acquisition we are 
preparing to celebrate. The development of that terri- 
tory, although interrupted by strife and misfortune, has 
gone steadily on, but within the past two years it seems 
to have acquired a new impetus, to have assumed an 
accelerated step. It is not only attracting immigration 
and investment from without, but has itself become 
conscious of its resources and possibilities, and with a 
self-respect and self-confidence justifiable, because born 
of pardonable pride in illimitable resources, it has 
said to its wealthiest and most populous community: 

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''Commemorate in a manner befitting its importance, our 
acquisition by the country of Washington, of Jefferson 
and of Madison." Right nobly has this community 
responded to the behest. 

Perhaps few if any of us realized the breadth of the 
lines we were laying or the risk involved in a scope so 
comprehensive, a scheme so ambitious. After the first 
step was taken it was too late to turn back. The organ- 
ization of the great army was perfected; the implements 
of war, after great difficulties, were secured. The 
advance guard, disciplined and equipped, was sent out. 
Comprehensive preparations for a vigorous campaign 
were actively begun. The effect of the work performed 
with unremitting energy and devotion for three years 
past is manifesting itself in a manner satisfactory to a 
degree, but that manifestation carries an impressive 
lesson, a realizing sense of what remains to be done. 
There are no stragglers now. The ranks are closed. 
Recruits are welcome. There is work for all. 

The foreign countries that have shown such consid- 
eration to your representative, and listened with interest 
and amazement to the stories of your project, your 
energy and your hospitality, and which have so gra- 
ciously and so generously accepted your invitation to 
contribute to the glory of the celebration, must not be 
disappointed in their expectations. The progress of 
preparations which have attained such splendid headway 
must not be impeded. The pledges of St. Louis have 
gone forth to the world and they must be fulfilled. No 
individual, no number of individuals, are essential to the 
creditable consummation of this undertaking. Neither 
the policy nor the interests of any organization or of any 
class in the community should be permitted to stand in 
the way of St. Louis being entirely prepared to receive 
and entertain the nation's and the world's elect who 
have accepted her invitation. When every citizen of 

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this community not only cherishes a pride in the good 
name of the city and the success of its enterprise, but 
feels that upon him rests the personal obligation of 
doing all in his power to uphold that credit and to bring 
about that success, then shall unquestionably be realized 
the unprecedented and perfect consummation of a cele- 
bration which will mark a most important stage in 
human achievement and human thought, and St. L,ouis 
will be its scene. 



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MAYOR WELLS' OPENING ADDRESS, 

At Banquet Tendered by Him to President 

Francis, March 23d, 1903, at 

St. Louis Club. 



If I ever had any regret for having been honored 
with the responsible duties pertaining to the position 
of Chief Executive, such feeling will have vanished 
when I consider the great privilege thus accorded me in 
being surrounded by the distinguished and representative 
citizens present. 

You gentlemen have been selected as my guests 
to-night, for the reason that you represent all that is 
progressive and essential in the formation and main- 
tenance of this city, of which we are all so proud. 

Through you, as the official representatives of the 
social, commercial, educational and other organizations 
of this city, I consider the entire community is now 
represented within this limited space. 

Round this festal board will be found captains of 
our great commercial growth and manufacturing indus- 
tries. 

Leaders of our splendid educational institutions are 
present, whose efforts, and the results obtained in the 
training of the rising generation, are second to none 
within these United States, the fruits of which will be 
of benefit for ages to come. 

The social organizations, as evidenced this evening, 
remind us that for cordiality and hospitality the people 
of this city stand pre-eminent. 

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Our judiciary are here, and nowhere in this broad 
land can we find their superior in wisdom. Then for- 
tunate, indeed, are we, for "justice without wisdom is 
impossible." 

A deputy of that vast army of labor is with us — the 
standard bearer of the skillful mechanic ; the men of 
brawn and muscle, who constitute an essential and 
integral part of the wheels of commerce and progress. 

The clergy — our regulators of society and defenders 
from evil — have honored us with their presence. 

Then comes the journalist, the herald of a noisy 
world, who on the shortest stretch can stir up more dust 
for good or evil — generally good — than the speediest 
thoroughbred that ever won a race. 

Members of the medical profession must not be 
forgotten, for, sooner or later, they will not forget us. 
These kindly gentlemen, who so aptly brought us into 
contact with this vale of woe, and then in due time, 
will so skillfully assist us out of it. 

Others here assembled occupy important civic and 
official positions, of whom this community may justly 
feel proud. 

Certainly it is a great pleasure and honor for me to 
call you guests. 

This is by no means an ordinary festival which has 
brought us together at this time, but an occasion of 
national, State and municipal significance. 

An achievement has just been accomplished which 
has attracted the admiration of the people of the conti- 
nent of Europe, as well as those of America, and in its 
accomplishment immense benefit will accrue to the city 
of St. Louis in its effort to provide for the education and 
entertainment of the people of all nations, through the 
greatest universal exposition that will ever have been held . 

It is needless for me to attempt to enlighten you as 
to how this was brought about. You are all familiar 

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with the story of how an illustrious citizen of this city, 
in an incredibly short space of time, made the tour of 
England, Germany, France, Belgium and Spain, and 
there attracted the earnest attention of the rulers of those 
great nations to the city of St. Louis, and to the impor- 
tance of the world's educator which will be here inaugu- 
rated in the year 1904. 

The hero of this achievement is our guest of honor 
this evening — that loyal citizen, that man of brain and 
energy, the President of the Louisiana Purchase Expo- 
sition, the Honorable David R. Francis. 

I am proud to call him my friend, and extend to him 
a most cordial personal, as well as official, welcome on 
his safe return from the successful journey just brought 
to an end. 

I congratulate the people of St. Louis for having in 
their number that foremost citizen whom I now intro- 
duce — David R. Francis. 



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RESPONSE 

At Dinner Tendered by Mayor Wells at 

St. Louis Club on Return from European 

Tour, March 23d, 1903. 



Your Honor and Gentlemen: 

In attempting to find expressions ol gratitude for 
this very distinguished and undeserved honor conferred 
upon me I am compelled to admit that my vocabulary is 
already exhausted. My sensations of gratitude, however, 
are none the less sincere by reason thereof, nor will my 
remembrances be any the less lasting. To be thus wel- 
comed by the Chief Executive of the city to which I am 
proud to acknowledge allegiance is a high distinction, 
but when that official combines with a fearless devotion 
to duty an ever active effort to promote the interests of 
those whose trust he holds, the unselfishness of his 
motives and the strength of his character elevate his 
personality until it overshadows partisan policies and 
adds dignity to the place, although it may be the highest 
within the gift of the people of this municipality. And 
when such a host exercises the judgment and the in- 
fluence required to assemble a company so representa- 
tive of all that goes to make up a right thinking and 
cultured community, the recipient of such an honor 
naturally feels grateful beyond expression. I can only 
say, Mr. Mayor and gentlemen, that I appreciate most 
highly this very distinguished compliment. 

I attempted, in acknowledgment of a most flattering 
reception tendered at the Chamber of Commerce in this 
city to-day, to impress upon the people of St. Iyouis the 
responsibility that confronts them. I am glad to say, 

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Mr. Mayor, that I am confident you realize this magni- 
tude of the labor to be performed in order that St. 
Louis may be ready to receive the thousands of visitors 
who will enter her gates during the next eighteen months. 

The plan for a system of boulevards and parks skirt- 
ing the western part of our city, and running from its 
northern to its southern boundary, as outlined in some 
St. Louis paper of recent issue, is a credit to the 
Commission that designed it, is in keeping with the new 
and broader career upon which St. Louis has entered, 
and its execution, although costly and difficult, will, I 
am sure, be vigorously pushed by yourself and those 
whose co-operation and assistance are necessary for its 
completion. That co-operation should not be withheld, 
nor will it be. An enlightened public sentiment, broad- 
ened until it is commensurate with the requirements of 
a World's Fair City of such brilliant promise as this, will 
show little consideration for those who will endeavor to 
hamper the carrying out of the comprehensive plans of 
a wise executive. A city with the ambition to entertain 
the world cannot afford to espouse narrow views in any 
line of public improvement. St. Louis has attracted 
the attention of all the progressive governments and of 
all the civilized races. 

While we have assumed a great responsibility, it 
brings with it an unequaled opportunity. If we fail to 
take advantage of it, if the expectations of our guests are 
disappointed, then it would be better for us not to have 
accepted the duty imposed upon us of commemorating a 
great event in the history of our country and an impor- 
tant step in the march of constitutional government. 

Every month in the progress of our work from its 
organization to the present moment has witnessed an 
alteration in the scope of the Exposition, and while every 
change may not have been an enlargement of the scheme, 
it certainly was an elevation thereof. No backward 

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step has been taken, nor will there be. Our aim has 
been, and will continue to be, to assemble here in 1904 
the best and the highest in every line of human endeavor. 
The city that will be the scene of such an assem- 
bling will draw the attention of the cultured minds of 
every clime, and it should assume an attire in harmony 
with the character of its enterprise, to the end that the 
anticipations of its guests may be fully met. I am sure, 
sir, that neither you nor any of the guests around this 
board require any such warning or reminder as I have 
uttered, but work so important cannot be deferred nor 
too often impressed upon the minds of the people of 
Saint Louis. 



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Dinner given by Mayor Wells at St. Louis Club, 

March 23d, 1903. 



Introductory Address, His Honor, Mayor Wells 

Response, David R. Francis 

Addresses. 

Hon. Cyrus P. Walbridge, . Representing Business Men's League. 

Dr. S. J. NicCOLLS, Representing Clergy of St. Louis. 

Judge Daniel G. Taylor, Representing Bar of St. Louis. 

Joseph A. Graham, Representing Press of St. Louis. 

F. W. Lehmann, Representing University Club, St. Louis. 

W. S. Chaplin, . . Representing Washington University, St. Louis. 
Dr. W. Banks Rogers, Representing St. Louis University, St. Louis. 

Guests. 

Elmer B. Adams, Judge, United States District Court. 

Brother Justin, President, Christian Brothers' College. 

T. R. Ballard, President, Merchants Exchange. 

A. H. Bauer, President, St. Louis Stock Exchange. 

W. K. Bixby, Second Vice-President, St. Louis Club. 

James L. Blair, General Counsel, Louisiana Purchase Expo- 
sition Co. 

H. C. Caldwell, Judge, United States Circuit Court. 

Murray Carleton, Member Executive Committee, Louisiana 
Purchase Exposition Co. 

F. J. Carlisle, Manager, Evening Chronicle. 

James Campbell, Member, Executive Committee, Louisiana 
Purchase Exposition Co. 

W. S. Chaplin, Chancellor, Washington University. 

Pierre Chouteau, Eighth Vice-President, Louisiana Purchase 
Exposition Co. 

S. W. Cobb, Fifth Vice-President, Louisiana Purchase Exposi- 
tion Co. 

Thos. B. Crews, Judge, Probate Court. 

August Diez, City Editor, Westliche Post. 

A. N. DeMenil. 

W. B. Douglass, President, Missouri Historical Society. 

L. D. DoziER, Member, Executive Committee, Louisiana Purchase 
Exposition Co. 

Wm. Druhe, President, Amerika. 

Henry W. Eliot, President, Academy of Science. 

Franklin Ferris, Judge, Circuit Court. 

John R. Fontana, Speaker, House of Delegates. 

R. M. Foster, Judge, Circuit Court. 

Thos. H. Francis. 

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D. R. Francis, Jr. 

J. D. Perry Francis. 

Nathan Frank, Member, Executive Committee, Louisiana 
Purchase Exposition Co. 

August Gehner, Seventh Vice-President, Louisiana Purchase 
Exposition Co. 

W. A. Giraldin, President, Real Estate Exchange. 

Richard L. Goode, Judge, Court of Appeals. 

Jos. A. Graham, Managing Editor, St. Louis Republic. 

H. B. Hawks, President, Board of Police Commissioners. 

W. W. Henderson, President, Cabanne Club. 

Jno. M. HerteIv, Managing Editor, Evening Chronicle. 

F. D. Hirschberg, Chairman, Entertainment Committee, 
Louisiana Purchase Exposition Co. 

Warwick Hough, Judge, Circuit Court. 

J. L. Hornsby, President, City Council. 

D. M. HouSER, Third Vice-President, Louisiana Purchase 
Exposition Co. 

C. M. Huttig, Sixth Vice-President, Louisiana Purchase 
Exposition Co. 

Geo. J. Johns, Editor, Post- Dispatch. 

Breckinridge Jones, Member, Executive Committee, Louisiana 
Purchase Exposition Co. 

R. McK. Jones, Presideut, Commercial Club. 

S. M. Kennard, Second Vice-President, Louisiana Purchase 
Exposition Co. 

Dr. A. R. Kieefer, President, St. Louis Medical Society of 
Missouri. 

Henry King, Editor in Chief, Globe -Democrat. 

L. D. Kingsland, President, St. Louis Manufacturers' Asso- 
ciation. 

Judge Jacob KXein, President, Bar Association. 

Chas. W. Knapp, Member, Executive Committee, Louisiana 
Purchase Exposition Co. 

Wm. H. LEE, Vice-Chairman, Ceremonies Committee, Louisiana 
Purchase Exposition Co. 

F. W. Lehmann, President, University Club. 

Geo. B. Leighton, President, Civic Improvement League. 

James G. McConkey, Secretary to the Mayor. 

Jno. F. Magner, Managing Editor, St. Louis Star. 

J. D. Mani/ey, President, Union Club. 

J. L. Mauran, President, St. Louis Chapter of American Insti- 
tute of Architects. 

Ei<ias MiCHAEi,, President, Mercantile Club. 

Rev. S. J. Niccolxs. 

Arthur Preuss, Associate Editor, America. 

Wm. M. Reedy, Editor, The Mirror. 

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Valle Reyburn, Judge, Court of Appeals. 

Rev. W. Banks Rogers, President, St. Louis University. 

Jno. Schroers, Secretary and Business Manager, Westliche 
Post. 

C. H. Spencer, First Vice-President, Louisiana Purchase 
Exposition Co. 

H. M. Blossom, St. Louis Fire Prevention Bureau. 

Wm, C. Stiegers, Manager, Post-Dispatch. 

W. B. Stevens, Secretary, Louisiana Purchase Exposition Co. 

Geo. J. Tansey. 

Dan'l G. Taylor, Judge, Circuit Court. 

I. S. Taylor, Director of Works, Louisiana Purchase Expo- 
sition Co. 

B. J. Taussig, President, Noon-day Club. 
Wm. Taussig, President, Board of Education. 

Wm. H. Thompson, Treasurer, Louisiana Purchase Exposition Co. 
Mr. J. C. Van Blarcom, President, St. Louis Clearing House 
Association. 

Prof. Jno. L. Van Ornum, President, Engineers' Club. 

C. P. Walbridge, Fourth Vice-President, Louisiana Purchase 
Exposition Co. 

Julius S. Walsh, President, Terminal Railroad Association. 
C. G. Warner, Member, Executive Committee, Louisiana 
Purchase Exposition Co. 

James A. Waterworth, Chairman, Round Table Club. 
Horatio D. Wood, Judge, Circuit Court. 



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